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I'm not sure if you were just paraphrasing your global.asa above or not...but if you were NOT paraphrasing, you forgot to use Sub Application_OnStart().  I see that you have an...

I think you may have to use the "MSDB" DB or include "USE MSDB" prior to the store proc, like this...

USE MSDB

EXEC SP_HELP_JOB @job_name = 'JOBNAME'

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Granted, I'm a newbie, so bear with me.I've got a DTS package that only has 3 steps.1) drop a table2) create a...