Hi, I wonder if it would be possible to add option to the 'catch' command in order to suppress messages like 'The convergence criterion was not met' (example code below). Regards, Marcin <hansl> open bjg set echo off scalar maxP = 4 scalar maxQ = 4 loop for p=1..maxP --quiet loop for q=1..maxQ --quiet catch arima p 1 q ; lg --conditional --quiet if ($error != 0) print "Estimation problem" endif endloop endloop </hansl> -- Marcin Błażejowski GG: 203127