Raymond, Allocate all eight datasets in a single step. When non-specific allocation is done (sms or not), a list of candidate volumes and a list of devices already owned is passed to SRM (or whatever it is now). That is the only way that I can think of getting the eight datasets across all of the volumes without resorting to specific allocation (using VOL=SER=???) Regards, John
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