In reply to Chris Hemedinger.

Hi, Chris,

Yes, I include the task in the Process Flow with an arrow from the Task to my first program which in effect requires the Task to complete before my programs run.

It appears to be working just fine today, so, um, I'm glad I mentioned it. :) I'll keep an eye on it, and I'll copy the relevant sections of the log here if the problem recurs. I may have just had something futzed up and re-booting my machine (which I did after I made my comment, above) cleared the problem. I did have one "hung" instance of SAS EG at the time. There was no application open, but I could see an EG process in my Windows Task Manager.

Jim