I believe that BPXBATCH does not support quoting the path; if true that would explain the not found return code. What happens with PARM='PGM /u/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx/SPWNPGM1'?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Kenneth J. Kripke [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: BPXBATCH and PGM invocation I am trying to execute a unix stored program using BPXBATCH from MVS but it fails continuously with BPXM047I BPXBATCH FAILED BECAUSE SPAWN (BPXISFN) OF 'u/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx/SPWNPGM1' FAILED WITH RETURN CODE 00000081 REASON CODE 0594003D The actual directory paths for this email were x'ed out for confidentiality reasons. I can execute the PGM successfully using ISHELL in TSO. JCL of the job follows: // JOB //JSTEP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM='PGM ''/u/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx/SPWNPGM1''' //STDIN DD * /* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* Is there some other utility that can accomplish what I am attempting to do? Kenneth J. Kripke [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
