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If you plan to only run the REXX program in batch, you could also put the input parameters in a file with a LRECL long enough to have them stand on a single line and read whatever DDNAME that file was assigned to.

@ Akatsukami: Thank you for the example and for taking time inbetween ur busy work schedule.
@ steve-myers & enrico-sorichetti: thanks for enlightening me about the tmps and also making clear that tmps r not utilitiies.
@Maxime B: Thnaks, i did it in similar fashion.

Most people don'r think of the TMP as a utility. I'm among them. It really does not have a direct function: all it does is call other programs (TSO commands are just programs) or CLISTs or Rexx execs. However, I suppose a good case can be made that it is a utility, so why not call it a utility!