Problem solved. A colleague discovered that at the end of the jobstream was a '/*EOF' statement. When this was removed from the jobstream, the JOB card was recognized and executed as planned.
In the Assembler Services Guide concerning the Internal Reader, the /*EOF statement causes the jobstream to be immediately sent to JES2 input services. The example for multiple jobstreams used only 1 record for the JOB card. In the example, every JCL statement was contained on one record. This leads me to believe that such a jobstream submitted via the internal reader cannot have statement overflowing to a second record. In this case, the JOB card was contained on 2 records. The continuation was not allowed. This in turn resulted in the ILLEGAL JOB card. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
