Try placing the entire invocation as a uss file called script.sh and in stdparm use
sh script.sh On Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 02:19:01 AM MDT, Peter <000005e4a8a0a03d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hello I am trying to run a python code using JCL by passing an arguments but it is failing. Is there any alternative or any corrections have to be made? //STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * SH python3 /usr/local/pythonScripts/restartTask.py dbtask error usage: restartTask [-h] [-d] task restartTask: error: unrecognized arguments: 00070001 Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN