>>The program was defined to run in batch. > >And when a program running in batch calls it, then it *is* running in >batch, even if the parm string is longer than 100 characters.
Sorry about that, should have been more specific: The program was designed to run as the job step task in a batch job, i.e. the one being called because it is named in the PGM= parameter on the EXEC statement. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
