The subject is an interesting, but I'd say wrong, way of putting it. It's not the command that burns anyone. What burned you was either -- your choice to terminate something that did not intend to be terminated in that way and you suffered the consequences -- the lack of proper recovery of the thing you terminated
If the choice was between trying that and re-IPLing the system, then you didn't get burned, you just took a shot, hoped for the best, and the best didn't pan out. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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