diff --git a/bin/bg-merger b/bin/bg-merger
index 469d48796c..b2df5052bd 100755
--- a/bin/bg-merger
+++ b/bin/bg-merger
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 
 export MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=1
 
-java -Xmx1536m -Xms1024m -XX:+UseSerialGC \
+split_cli $@
+
+java -Xmx1536m -Xms1024m -XX:+UseSerialGC ${jvm_options[@]} \
     -cp "$CLAS12DIR/lib/clas/*:$CLAS12DIR/lib/services/*:$CLAS12DIR/lib/utils/*" \
     org.jlab.analysis.eventmerger.EventMerger \
-    $*
+    ${class_options[@]}
+
diff --git a/bin/decoder b/bin/decoder
index 1ea3657a9b..324e69fb26 100755
--- a/bin/decoder
+++ b/bin/decoder
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
 
 . `dirname $0`/../libexec/env.sh
 
+split_cli $@
+
 export MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=1
 
-java -Xmx1536m -Xms1024m -XX:+UseSerialGC \
+java -Xmx1536m -Xms1024m -XX:+UseSerialGC ${jvm_options[@]} \
     -cp "$CLAS12DIR/lib/clas/*:$CLAS12DIR/lib/plugins/*" \
     org.jlab.detector.decode.CLASDecoder4 \
-    $*
+    ${class_options[@]}
+
diff --git a/bin/hipo-merge-histograms b/bin/hipo-merge-histograms
index cf8b3b6cda..f93e0fa375 100755
--- a/bin/hipo-merge-histograms
+++ b/bin/hipo-merge-histograms
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 . `dirname $0`/../libexec/env.sh
-cmd="java -Xms1024m -cp $CLAS12DIR/lib/clas/*:$CLAS12DIR/lib/plugins/* org.jlab.groot.data.TDirectory"
+
+split_cli $@
+
+cmd="java -Xms1024m ${jvm_options[@]} -cp $CLAS12DIR/lib/clas/*:$CLAS12DIR/lib/plugins/* org.jlab.groot.data.TDirectory"
 
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
   echo """
@@ -12,4 +15,5 @@ if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
   exit 2
 fi
 
-$cmd $*
+$cmd ${class_options[@]}
+
diff --git a/bin/hipo-utils b/bin/hipo-utils
index 47e579389c..5b00c89d17 100755
--- a/bin/hipo-utils
+++ b/bin/hipo-utils
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
 
 . `dirname $0`/../libexec/env.sh
 
+split_cli $@
+
 export MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=1
 
-java -Xmx2048m -Xms1024m -XX:+UseSerialGC \
+java -Xmx2048m -Xms1024m -XX:+UseSerialGC ${jvm_options[@]} \
     -cp "$CLAS12DIR/lib/clas/*:$CLAS12DIR/lib/plugins/*" \
     org.jlab.jnp.hipo4.utils.HipoUtilities \
-    $*
+    ${class_options[@]}
+