JP said: All of your ideas are great and I have thought of them all but my initial problem is how to create the 40 gig file in the 1st place. Given that I only have MOD 27 volumes as the largest volume available. How do I go about creating that 40 gig file before the 1st access of the HFS file?
Jim, Since this is open systems world, can you create it on another platform and reach it from the mainframe? Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

