---snip--- As a circumventive measure, one, less desirable choice, is to resort to either coding multiple PROC instances with specific check conditions or use JCL INCLUDE statements to externalize your individual PROC rqmt conditions and enclose the IF/THEN/ENDIF statements as needed for the first and subsequent PROC executions. ---snip---
Thanks for your detail explainlation! However, I don't understand how to use JCL INCLUDE statements to code the PROC requirement conditions AND being enclosed within the IF/THEN/ENDIF statements, can you kindly give me an example? by the way, it seems no easy to do so.... Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html