> I wonder how COBOL would do if you did try to have more > than 3273 files opened at the same time?
IKJ56866I DATA SET DOTCWS.CTLIB NOT ALLOCATED, CONCURRENT ALLOCATIONS EXCEEDED This was using BPXWDYN to allocate the files. I did not try to open them just allocate. Oddly, the return code was always 0. Unless, of course, there's a bug in the code that I whipped together in a few minutes from spare bits I had laying about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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