Tommy, I wonder if you have correctly understood the description here http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2o361/2.1.6?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0I.bks&DT=20100112161502
So, when you specify SMSHONOR, first SMS determines which devices it would have selected based on either; specific request - which library the volume is in, non-specific request - the SG provided from ACS routine, and then it checks the device you specified or the esoteric you specified has an intersection with the eligible devices.... Mike Wood RMM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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