>I doing it from the outside XMEM I do not know what that means, but guessing that you mean that you are trying to access another address space's data from "yours" while within a work unit of yours, that in general is not possible.
You cannot reliably access another address space by cross-memory unless that address space is non-swappable. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN