Thanks for your input, but I failed to mention in the initial post that I experimented and tried all those options for datatypes in the original .frl that defines the record layout.

Regardless of ch, nm, ai……the leading zero’s are always stripped on the fetch.

I just setup the test again, to make sure I was not dreaming and alas !…Read more

Did all the Raima recovery commands we could…to no avail.  ended up having to dump the good messages and then reinit the DB.

My main focus at this point is to see what may be causing this.  I know it is wide open, but was hoping someone else may have run into a similar issue.