Yet another option: Put a line like this at the bottom of your parm deck: $vs,'$s'
This will ask JES to issue the $s command once it is ready. You can then respond with nn,WARM or nn,COLD or whatever to the SPECIFY OPTIONS prompt and JES will eventually "start itself". Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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