Hi, I want to capture the system errors and write to a file. Eg:%DCL-E-INVEST,invalid IF-THEN-ELSE nessting structure or data inconsistency I want to record this error in a file .Kindly help Shari

Shari, I'm not sure I understand your wish....... To redirect errormessages you can redefine SYS$ERROR to point to file $ DEFINE SYS$ERROR ERRORLOG.LIS But if you want to check a command for success or not, VMS stores information about how a DCL-command worked in two symbols. $STATUS and $SEVERITY. example $ SHOW TIME 12-OCT-2004 19:08:57 $ SHOW SYMBOL $S* $SEVERITY == "1" $STATUS == "%X00030001" SEVERITY = 1 means "SUCCESS" $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE(%X00030001) %CLI-S-NORMAL, normal successful completion $ THISISNOTACOMMAND %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling \THISISNOTACOMMAND\ $ SHOW SYM $S* $SEVERITY == "0" $STATUS == "%X00038090" SEVERITY = 0 means "WARNING" $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE(%X00038090) %CLI-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling Please explain your problem more detailed....

Shari, Hakan has some good suggestions, allow me to suggest two more: - Do a SPAWN/OUTPUT=filename - SET HOST 0/LOG=filename Both are documented in the HELP text, use the HELP command to get the specifics of each command. I hope that the above is helpful! - Bob

If it is a command procedure, you can use the /OUTPUT qualifier e.g. $ @MYCOMMANDFILE /OUTPUT=MYOUTPUT.TXT