On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:40:37 -0500, you wrote: $ SHO LOG VIM %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name VIM $ SHO LOG TMP %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name TMP $ SHO SYM VIM %DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling $ sho sym/glo vim %DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling Obviously things aren't getting setup correctly. I wonder if I put it all in the correct spots. Please, don't take this as an offense (I'm not English native, so I do not know how this would "sound" in English), but... After editing SYLOGICALS and SYLOGIN have you rebooted the system or have you executed those definition commands by typing them at a command prompt? If you just put the definitions in the files, but haven't done anything more, they were never considered: SYLOGICALS is read during startup and SYLOGIN during process login. You can define manually both logicals and symbols at the command line prompt instead of rebooting the whole thing. But they have to be in the SY* files too, or after the next reboot you'll have to do the manual typing again. G.