Walt, Yes, I own the code which loads the programs and creates the environment, so to speak.
I would like to thank everyone for their assistance, including those who emailed me privately. Due to the relative complexity of accomplishing this with the multiple potential variables within the executing environment, I think we'll wind up doing something less sophisticated which will resolve what we need accomplished at the end of the day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN