Getting nostalgic for a moment, but was there ever a usermod to change the behavior of the relative GDG numbers? When I worked at a large tax processing concern back in the mid-1980's, you had to code in their environment
//STEP1 EXEC //DD1 DD DSN=BLAH(+1),DISP=NEW //STEP2 EXEC //DD1 DD DSN=BLAH(+0),DISP=OLD Drove me nuts, because this was totally against what I'd been taught. Later, Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

