James, Not seeing the lost symbol behavior,
For all the steps missing symbol substitution, may be you have a SPACE after DD * which would treat the rest of the content as comments. so ,SYMBOLS=EXECSYS is treated as a comment. //SYSUT1 DD * ,SYMBOLS=EXECSYS it should be //SYSUT1 DD *,SYMBOLS=EXECSYS One way to check is to issue the command HILITE JCL and it would show the comments in a different color Kolusu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
