If you put a ? in front of the command, it will prompt. ?DSPUSRPRF ************** I had composed this answer, before I saw that Charlie Brown had also answered: You could just precede the command with a question mark, like this: ?DSPUSRPRF Or you could use two question marks in front of the appropriate keyword, to prompt for specific parameters: DSPUSRPRF ??USRPRF(&User1) ??TYPE(*ALL). This would insert the value of the &User1 variable into the USRPRF parameter and replace the default value for TYPE with *ALL, and then prompt for both parameters, so that the user could change their values if desired. CWC ************ ============================================================= If basic command and parameter prompting is what's wanted, then the Information Center has lots of details. You can review all of the rules under <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rbam6/allow.htm">Prompting for user input at run time</a>. You might pay special attention to the "Using selective prompting for CL commands" sub-topic. Prompt control can be almost a programming 'language' all by itself. Tom

If you put a ? in front of the command, it will prompt. ?DSPUSRPRF ************** I had composed this answer, before I saw that Charlie Brown had also answered: You could just precede the command with a question mark, like this: ?DSPUSRPRF Or you could use two question marks in front of the appropriate keyword, to prompt for specific parameters: DSPUSRPRF ??USRPRF(&User1) ??TYPE(*ALL). This would insert the value of the &User1 variable into the USRPRF parameter and replace the default value for TYPE with *ALL, and then prompt for both parameters, so that the user could change their values if desired. CWC ************ ============================================================= If basic command and parameter prompting is what's wanted, then the Information Center has lots of details. You can review all of the rules under <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rbam6/allow.htm">Prompting for user input at run time</a>. You might pay special attention to the "Using selective prompting for CL commands" sub-topic. Prompt control can be almost a programming 'language' all by itself. Tom