In one of the power patches, there is a change to the PAUSE command that will allow you to pause a job until another job finishes. Now whether the job completes successfully is a different matter. If your system does not have that PP on it, you could use message files to handle this. I have a command file that will help. Let me know if this interests you. Later. -----Original Message----- From: Simonsen, Larry [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 8:17 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: pause while job executing I seem to remember a command which would allow one job to wait for another job to complete. I thought that it was the pause command but, I cannot find the syntax for this. can some one point me into the right cave for this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Simonsen Phone: 801-489-2450 Flowserve Corporation Fax: 801-491-1750 PO Box 2200 http://www.flowserve.com Springville, UT 84663 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------