Hi Ralph,
No, nothing new. I assume you want to get rid of leading/trailing blanks. The JUSTIFY clause in the DD only works for fields of differing lengths.
If you're trying to get blanks out of a numeric field you could use the new NUMVAL intrinsic function. Else you'd have to use something like string/unstring or inspect (they combined some/most of the functions of transform and, I think, examine).
But anyway, there's not much new.
Hope this helps, Jack.