>Curiousity: Did you delete them in reserve order? I.e. Z to A instead of A to >Z?
I experimented, but (as I said) it was such a long time ago, and a small part of what the EXEC was doing, that it didn't make much difference. (As a long-time performance/capacity analyst -- since September 1981, I'm aware of the issues surrounding PDS responsiveness). I wrote the EXEC shortly after MVS started supporting REXX (circa 1990 -- MVS/ESA 3.1.0 [or was it 3.1.0e?]). And, until today, I have never really looked at that code, since). - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

