>There is no way to suppress that message, which is sent as mail because >your MVS machine has :msgs.NO. Thank you for the prompt reply even if the answer wasn't the one I wanted to hear. I'll begin work on a circumvention. I'd like to changes :msgs from NO to YES for SCFMVS, but the MVS systems programmers haven't in- stalled anything with which the poor, benighted TSO users can reply. -- Herb