Solution found (by accident).... If I define a DFP segment for the FTP userid with STORCLAS=FAILFTP and this storage class does not exist, the FTP dataset allocation fails nicely with a message to the FTP user and no WTOR is issued.
Once again, thanks for all the ideas. Regards, Fred Schmidt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html