Joe, The only time you want to use NOSCRATCH on the DELETE command is when you want to remove the catalog entry but leave the dataset on dasd. That should be a very rare occassion. I generally let the DELETE command default to SCRATCH for all datasets (dasd, tape, migrated, etc.). Regards, John
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