>Does anyone out there know of a reasonable way of successfully bypassing V1R7 >and migrating to V1R8, when coming from V1R4?
There isn't one, unfortunately. IBM only promises compatibility for N, N+1, N+2, N+3. Where N is 1.4 and N+3 is 1.7. There are control blocks, catalogues and other things that change too drastically. Plus, in this case, a lot of JES2 exits change in 1.7. You could try it, but you would be on your own. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

