Thanks you to all of you who answered.  I guess I can only give the operator
a warning.

Jon
Jon Temple wrote in message <[log in to unmask]>...
>I have a job stream which I want to close or abort "naturally" if a file is
>no found.  I know if I do a listf on the file in the job, it will abort
>before processing, but  our operations people see that and call someone in
>the middle of the night.
>
>How can I do the lists, the if it can't find the file, then stop processing
>and end the job without getting the "job flushed" stuff.  If it finds the
>file, I would like the job to continue on.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jon
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