Thanks for all of the good comments and suggestions. As for why they do so many ALTERs, I've learned from experience not to ask why. ;-)
I was really looking for affirmation that running TSO ALTER commands in batch was the cause of their performance issue and that one couldn't choke a system by doing thousands of ALTERs using IDCAMS in batch. Thanks Bob Richards for confirming this. Sure, I'd do things differently with their ACS routines, but I'm just a consultant and nobody here asked me to stick my nose into their Storage Management! Terry Bruns [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
