Hi all,

I have a backup job stream in which a variable is set to determine the
type of backup to perform.  At the completion of the backup I stream
another job which must also know the type of backup used.  Here is a
snipped of the two jobs:

!JOB FULLBACK,OPERATOR.SYS;HIPRI;OUTCLASS=LJ3
!SETVAR TYPE "T"
!PURGE BUTYPE
!FILE BUTYPE;REC=-1,,F,ASCII;DISC=1;SAVE
!ECHO !TYPE>*BUTYPE
          :
          :
!STREAM BACKUP2.DAVE.SIS
!EOJ

!JOB BACKUP2,OPERATOR.SYS;HIPRI;OUTCLASS=LJ3
!INPUT TYPE < BUTYPE
!ECHO !TYPE
    :
!EOJ

The problem is  BUTYPE is blanked out by the time it gets to BACKUP2.  I
PRINT BUTYPE after I stream FULLBACK and it contains the letter T, like
it should.  I continue PRINTing BUTYPE continually for about 10 minutes
and it still displays the letter T.  But then, without any explanation,
I'll do another print and it displays a blank.  I check the modify date
and it is the same as the original creation date.

Any ideas on why this would happen?