On Sat, 16 Nov 1991 19:07:02 +0100 Eric Thomas said: > ... >Anyway I don't understand why this is such a problem for you, since you >are running VM/XA and you can have as many files as you want in the >spool. ... I don't know why this is a problem for the original writer, but it is a problem for us. We run VM/XA on a very memory-constrained 4381 and this is a problem for us there. The reason is the real memory ("free storage") used by the control blocks for the spoolfiles. It's not a huge amount per spoolfile, but with 20,000 of them on the system it adds up to a lot. Mark