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 > >