I believe the OP said he could not control (modify?) the proc. Greg
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Conway, Steven F Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:57 AM Or go effective low-tech. Instead of trying to do massive mods to the program,do a minor mod and pass a return code to indicate the error condition, then follow with an IEFBR14 to delete the dataset in question. Um, I guess I just assumed batch processing, didn't I? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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