thank you for all your posts.

we are using export and import for now.

@Laurel James (GJS) 
good solution too :)

yeah, since "kill ^IRIS.TempIntegrityOutput(+$job)" errors out in the function and I had to remove it.

anyways. thanks and will look into the link and learn more!

actually I have tried 2 ways to do this.

the other way isnt working.

function integrityChk
{
# function to freeze the instance

#/usr/bin/iris terminal $ENV -U%SYS "set sc=$$CheckList^Integrity(,,,,5)"
iris terminal $ENV -U%SYS << EOF
Do CheckList^Integrity(,,,,5)
do Display^Integrity(,1,)
EOF

}

any idea why this method not working?