MichealButz wrote: >I am looking for to enter a string following a keyword towards that end I use >IKJPOSIT SPACE,VALIDCK=
Uhm, I'm not sure what you're saying? Could you be kind to post your statements? >I am looking to enter program name which is up to a 8 byte character string How do you enter the name? via a parm? interactively? other way? >When I enter the string it comes back to me IKJ56712I INVALID KEYWORD How did it come back to you? Interactively or in a batch job? How did you entered the string? Can you post a screen print and all and every error messages? >I don't understand this as there isn't keyword it's a positional operand You are supplying way too few details in your post. Even poor Anthony Thompson kindly tried to help, but you still need to post more details. Tom Marchant gave you a hint in 'Re: CSVQUERY Anomaly' on 10 June 2014. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN