> I tried using both HLQ ZWAXPG and SYS1 however > for some reason SMS is trapping the TAPE1 DSN
if hlq ZWAXPG is 'trapped' by SMS, it means that your SMS ACS routines are coded in order to assign a SC and a SG (ISTINT1) to datasets whose hlq is ZWAXPG. Which doesn't mean it is bad. The problem which you seem to have here is that SG ISTINT1, which has 5 volumes, is not able to allocate 1055 Cyls as primary space. Can you try to reduce the primary space with a smaller value ? Can you try to allocate the dataset with another SMS-owned hlq which will choose a bigger SG ? Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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