I think the * in my select was causing a issues but right now I want to know what wrong with my format because when I changed the * for the email field o get error on /* Ect. , I just want to have the right format so I can based myself for other is it possible to change my syntaxe for the real thing plz thx. //XYZNEWS-215 JOB ECHO=NO // DISTribute MAIL-MERGE PW=**** , DBMS=YES(EMAIL=strEmail) // TO DD * SELECT strEmail FROM EmailTable_63 /* //DATA DD * , To: <&*TO;> From: XYZnews editor <*****@gmail.com> Date: &*date; Subject: test; MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Boundary="123456789123456789abcd" --123456789123456789abcd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jj --123456789123456789abcd Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head>I'm a Head</head> <body> <h2>Im relly the real shit</h2> </body> </html> --123456789123456789abcd--