Adam, I thanked you and did not answer your question. I want to write a small script to test how long certain jobs run. The SP is written so that it will exit under certain conditions, attempt to run at the next hourly cycle and only run for a few seconds if the trouble has not been corrected. Modifying the vendor's SP is possible, but I don't want to become the owner of the SP after I mod it. So, I want to back-door the problem for now and test the run duration. I know how long the run should be on each cycle.