Just so that you know, I figured that part out but I was trying to figure out how ControlM talks to SQL Server. Since the writing of this, I found out that our environment does not have the ControlM for databases component turned on in ControlM and that's why I couldn't get ControlM to executed the stored procedure in SQL Server. How I resolved my problem was I got a coworker of mine to write/create a program in #C to talk to ControlM to trigger the stored procedure which executes the SQL Server backup and return a condition code as to the success or failure of the backup. Once we get the ControlM for databases component installed, then I'm going to try an set up the job to execute from ControlM directly. I hope this make sense.

Thanks for responding.

VA