I omitted in my last post to answer the question Is there an IBM utility that is smart enough to make a UNIX executable into a program object in a PDSE?
There is|are. The z/OS UNIX System Services commands cp and mv and the TSO commands OGET and OPUT can do the necessary conversions in both directions. ---jg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN