I had two thoughts in the middle of the night last night - forgive me if these have been covered - I haven't read every reply you've gotten (I've read most).
1. Does the problem occur if you close the files WITHOUT the error that drives your recovery routine? If you just set a branch that "pretends" the error occurred? 2. What is the error that drives the recovery routine? You're not out of space for the file, are you? Is CLOSE trying to write a last block and hitting the same space problem? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: VSAM CLOSE failure problem I'm running an asm recovery routine that closes several VSAM files. 3 of the files close without fail. All files are KSDS files. The last one gets a failure. r15 = 4 ERR = 0 acberflg = 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

