Before anyone at HP expends energy adding extra commands to SYSSTART,
allow me to point out how anyone can already place any MPE command
they like in their SYSSTART file.  The only commands that need to be in
the STARTUP section are those that setup the spooler, and any other
commands that require the user to be OP.  The rest of startup processing is
performed by a job that is appended to the end of the SYSSTART file.
It may look confusing, but it works well for me.

   startup
   streams 10
   openq lp
   down 6
   outfence 14
   jobfence 1
   jobsecurity low;passexempt=max
   limit 8,8
   jobpri 0,cs
   allow @.@; commands=console,log
   spooler lp;start
   stream sysstart.pub.sys
   ***
   !job sysstart,manager.sys;hipri
   !# any desired MPE commands...
   !eoj


Regards,

Paul Taffel