> Actually, this isn't due to any difference between ALLOCATE > in batch and ALLOCATE from TSO. Reason 0210 means that the > dataset is unavailable because it is allocated to another > address space, most probably your TSO session. You need to > FREE FILE(NEWHFS) first; you could also logoff. > You don't need to do this for the batch job because it has > already ended and so freed the dataset; that is the > equivalent of logging off TSO.
I was able to work around the problem this weekend. Thanks for the explanation. Dave Low ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

