How about moving those into a shell script? PARM='SH /u/user/my.sh'
/u/user/my.sh would contain the stmts currently on your PARM stmt. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Norgauer Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 5:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: PARM problem - HELP Here's my error: 10 //PS082 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH, //******************************************************************** // PARM='SH echo sftp -b /u/bpxbatch/mccheckftp // fis-depot-test.ucdavis.edu |su -s bpxbtch' 11 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 12 //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* 13 //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* MT NO. MESSAGE 10 IEF642I EXCESSIVE PARAMETER LENGTH IN THE PARM FIELD Thanks. John Norgauer University of California Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd ASB 1300 Sacramento, Ca 95817 916-734-0536 SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING...... Guilty, until proven innocent !! " JN 2004 ........ "Hardware eventually breaks - Software eventually works" anon ........ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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