Let me revise the problem a little. dsmc archive -archmc=ARCH_MC "/path/*" -subdir=yes -description="ARCHIVE1" dsmc archive -archmc=ARCH_MC "/path/*" -subdir=yes -description="ARCHIVE2" Now two files exist call /path/myfile one with the description of ARCHIVE1 and the other with ARCHIVE2 if I were to delete archive /path/myfile both are gone Both have seperate object_id from the select table. Is there a method (known, without writing a api program) that will allow for extracting the object data and then specificly deleting each file. In the example I would like to leave /path/myfile desc=ARCHIVE1 Thanx, Bart
