If you are going to run your consoles with DEL=R which explicitly tells the system not to keep things where you can see them (i.e., it tells the system to let them roll off the screen), even when the message was issued to do exactly that, then you had better provide some means of noticing those messages. If it hurts, then don't do it.
As I understand the scenario, system MVSA was running without access to the backup. There surely were messages telling you to fix that. All that you had to do was to inform MVSB that MVSA was down, which gets back to the original point of why you were running with DEL=R without automation (or whatever) to alert you of vital messages.. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
