Jerry, Are you running on a ThinkPad using Flex, or on a real mainframe? The reason I ask I am using a ThinkPad and Flex and I had the same problem some time ago and found that I had to turn the tape dirve on and get the * in the window before I turn the ThinkPAD on.
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