Joe, >Many thx - looks like i've got a few recat commands to enter - then delete
It would be much easier to use a storage management product to find and delete the orphaned datasets. Do you have DFSMSdss? CA-Disk (DMS)? Regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

