>That sounds useful but unless my memory is inaccurate an STC must be a single >step
I believe your memory is inaccurate. TSO must be a single step, or you get an abend - S622, iirc. But, we've had multi-step CICS Regions as started tasks. Clean-up; CICS; recovery. PS: it's a started task (or Started Task). STC stands for Started Task Control -- the sub-system. Calling it an STC is inaccurate, and akin to calling a job a JCL, or an EXEC a REXX. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

