The original message "Storing lists from MVS systems" never arrived here. Would someone please resend it to me? Thanks. Roger Fajman RAF@NIHCU P.S. - I don't know what the original question was, so this might not be germane, but Peter is certainly correct in what he says about /*XMIT. If such a file were to be directed to an MVS system, it would try to interpret it as JCL for a batch job to be executed. Also, the concept of SYSOUT class does not apply to such files, which would be a problem when sending mail. We have a mod to JES2 that allows us to submit SYSOUT files through an internal reader without executing a job.