OK, you lost me on the status of a tape in the volcat....we have a volcat defined for the ATL, but not the VTS...
SYS1.VOLCAT.VGENERAL SYS1.VOLCAT.V2 << 200000 series for ATL Our VTS tapes are 400000...this is new to me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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