The complicating factor, in terms of "prior behavior", involves in some way a multi-step job and/or the REFDD JCL statement and, as mentioned, someone superseding the system's IEFBR14..
I believe the intent is to enable this support via a parmlib option. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

