One last time. As 'new' message rather than reply.
Looks like I got hit by the ghost of Christmas alien. I'll try one more time. One big distinction of true 'system STCs' is the ability to start a task using this proc: //IEESYSAS PROC PROG=IEFBR14 //IEFPROC EXEC PGM=&PROG //* THE IEESYSAS PROCEDURE IS SPECIFIED IN THE //* PARAMETER LIST TO IEEMB881 BY MVS COMPONENTS //* STARTING FULL FUNCTION SYSTEM ADDRESS SPACES. AFAIK tasks that use IEESYSAS are all started by MVS, but I just verified that it's possible to start one by hand: s ieesysas,prog=iefbr14 . The task ran but of course didn't do anything. Here a few real system tasks started with IEESYSAS at IPL time: CEAINIT, IWMINJST, IXGBLF01, IFASMF, ANTMAIN, etc. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN