Have you seen this? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II07664
Also you mention you have just created the dataset. Is that in the same job or step? Try putting it in a previous step, although I know of no reason why you should have to do this. I have examples of my own with a define and repro in the same step, not used recently though. Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
