when I am reading a VB Parm file through IKJEFT01 utility, it is not reading the parm properly and some letters of the word are getting eaten up by the system.

I want to know how exactly this utility reads a VB file.

below is the parm read by the system:

READY
ROGRAM(GENARC) PLAN(DAP102) IB('SYSU.DOCUMKR.L1.LINKLIB')
IKJ56621I INVALID COMMAND NAME SYNTAX

But the actual parm is

DSN SYSTEM(DSN)
RUN PROGRAM(GENARC) PLAN(DAP102) -
LIB('SYSU.DOCUMKR.LINKLIB')
END

You must leave the first 8 columns blank, then it should work.

Is the file VBA (or even VBM)? If so, the first column is being ignored as it is expected to contain the ANSI control character.

James Campbell