Use attributes don't make any difference with an SMS managed volume. All of our SMS managed volumes are USE PRIVATE. Works well. If you want to stop SMS from allocating on a particular volume, you must mark the volume as DISNEW. This is done with an operator command similar to:
V SMS,VOL(volser),DISABLE,NEW -- John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

