Well, actually, I have to apologise: I didn't read your post to the bottom and didn't notice that you were parsing the output rather than looking at the status code.

But my point was actually about exit SQL.SQLCODE, because it's at best useless (as you intend it to be), or at least confusing, and at worst dangerous (for the reasons I gave above).

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Tommy
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