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misfit,

here is the command flow I'm using when downloading xmit files :

FTP mvs-host
enter name and password
BINARY
QUOTE SITE LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=3120 RECFM=FB
QUOTE SITE PRI=5 SEC=2 CYL ...

here is my stupid question (hope u'll excuse me ) did u leave the dataset ?

I mean exit form the dataset.

you can
1 create your own copy of panel you want to display with .resp=ENTER in the
init section of that panel
2 fill variables required by ispf in your REXX
3 call display of panel in your R ...

utility suggestion would be DFSORT's icetool (it provides some date handling features)

or REXX ?

and (while I'm at it) you don't need to use ISPF var to pass parm to a macro :

change your "macro" statement to
"MACRO (var1) NOPROCESS"

but that's only if you want to pass a parm to a mac ...

/************** REXX ***************/
ADDRESS ISPEXEC "VGET (var1) SHARED"
ADDRESS ISREDIT
"MACRO"
" C ALL &var1 'CHK' "
"SAVE"
"END"
RETURN

change " C ALL &var1 'CHK' "
...

BTW do u have access to JES2 automatic commands ?

they may help here

and what I would do is have my main code read an instruction file free it
do some process go back to sleep

the instruct file would be free so u can write to it (add commands)

I suspect you want to have some commands/jobs executed at
some predefined times (I do the same to submit bckp jobs after testing day)
am I right ?

leroy,

maybe u can have a ftp step at the end that transmit the file to a destination
predefined by ur sysguys ?

or u could try SDSF in REXX

u will need tms utilities. ask ur operation staff aobut TMS utilities.

what you could do is get the info u need from TMS in a file (thru batch) then
have the cobol pgm read this file.

one question would be :
can u run IOF in batch ?
in which case you just make sure of the location of IOF load module
then do file allocations in JCL

and there u go...

this is basically what ...

diba,

could u post the msg u got ?