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I have looked at every dsn in the logon proc SYSPROC and SYSEXEC i found two places where the 'offending' dataset is being allocated new, including the one that issues the error messages I inserted a CONTROL LIST CONLIST SYMLIST MSG and a listcat and I see no output when logging on to the new userid. ugh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN