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Steve, I'm not the MVS Sysprog, so I don't set the IPS profiles. It was a management decision for the "sub second" business as they wanted what they thought was productivity. We are currently exapanding our programming staff to about 700 people. We will never go VM. All our data centers (and there's quite a few) run MVS/XA. We need batch as well as CICS for production. One of the considerations of using MVS is that the TSO environment for testing will be the same as the batch environment. (I mean control blocks and such) Developing code under VM and running it under MVS (batch) is a problem as I recall. Up until this year we were a 100% assembler shop (yes, applications too). Suddenly, managment discovered COBOL and 4GL's. Our PC Application programmers will use either C (yay!) or COBOL (bleah). (Of course as a PC SysProg I can use C or assembler as I see fit – my S/370 and Series/1 background is also assembler) Hey, it works for us! Geo