Hi, I run 2 pipes :
"pipe strliteral /abc/ ! block 80 cms ! punch" and "pipe reader ! strfind x41 ! substr 2-* ! deblock cms !> a a a" I use a "tag dev pun VM1 myuser" to punch the file through RSCS after a "spool punch eof" by hand. When I run the pipe reader on VM1, that's OK. When I run it on VM1 with a file coming from VM2, I get a FPLDEB072E last record incomplete. Am I in a premature end-of-file like the help says ? Regards