Thanks Jon, I'll play around with BPXBATCH to see if I can get to a working combination. Bart
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS Have you tried running PGM=BPXBATCH instead and run the exec as a UNIX script? You would need to place the exec in a UNIX file and change ALLOC to BPXWDYN. As for the truncation error, have you tried changing the dataset's attributes (LRECL, BLKSIZE and RECFM)? Jon Perryman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN