Thanks Linda for your suggestions. This is a fairly small shop and if I look for the JES sysprog, I'd probably end up finding myself. I'll be careful with my actions.
Your statement: "I know of no way to reset the output indicators." confirms other similar statements I've found browsing through the internet. However, I've not been able to find an authoritative source(IBM), document or manual to confirm. I just find it really odd that this would be the case. If OFFLOAD is an irrersable process, shouldn't it be documented as such or at least some warning. I feel like OFFLOADING is like deleting a dataset without asking for a confirmation. I know its possible to offload to another transmitter, but even with that its limited to 8 tries and you have to have them set-up before hand, (I don't think they can be created dynamically?). If you expire all 8 tries then its stuck in SPOOL land forever and noway to OFFLOAD. This is strange for a platform that prides itself in RAS (reliability, availability & serviceability) and everything from hardware to software is built on fault- tollerant. To have SPOOL OFFLOAD as a one-way ticket to somewhere does seem to fit in with z-series model. Does IBM monitor this list? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

