Peter, Try with single quotes before SPACE parm
cp -W "seqparms='SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),RECFM=VB,LRECL=259,BLKSIZE=0'" $HOME/testfile.txt "//'TSOUSER.NEWFILE'" Thanks, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
