Try DSN=NULLFILE. See the JCL manuals...
<snip> I sure wish DUMMY didn't truncate the concatenation, but were treated as an empty directory (DSORG=PO), or data set (DSORG=PS), allowing subsequent catenands to be searched or read. Or that there were an alternative keword (DD EMPTY) with that behavior. Or even that there were a standard SYS1.EMPTY.PO and SYS1.EMPTY.PS. (For PS one can use PATH=/./dev/null. But it's ugly.) </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

