Eileen, Another possibility that may be acceptable is to actually use the dynamic allocation facility. Assign a specific management class to those dynamically allocated dump datasets, for their use only. Then have your DASD management product, such as DFHSM, automatically scratch those datasets after "n" days. If a sysprog needs a particular dump, they can use IPCS option 3.2 to copy the "interesting" dump to a differently named dataset with a different management class for futher work. This would automatically clean up dumps, if that is the concern.
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