what was the allocation of space while allocating the PDS and once you came out of the PDS using F3?
YI indicate it should be released with space management cycle run and also when close is issued against the dataset.. I assume by mistake or by other job/user dataset was not opened...sometime other session is active and we don't realize it.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

