>This poor practice was something instilled in the Tata contractors we have >employed.
Simple answer to that: don't hire them again. Long before SMS, in 1981 (when I started), we had utilities to automatically delete uncatalogued datasets. There has been no reason, aside from SYSRES, JES SPOOL and the like, for uncatalogued datasets for aeons! - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html