Eileen, I am glad it is working. I am more than a bit skeptical that ICSF was somehow interfering with the startup.
If you come across something like it in the future, the other thing I can suggest is turning on some of the debugging for the JVM. If JZOS had ceded control over to the JVM, then it may have been something with the JDK. I know that with Tomcat 5 there was a weird bug with the startup that would only occur occasionally. Ah well.. you are on 1.9 and life is good. As I guy I used to work with would say... "It's a fluke". <vbg> -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

