Thank you Richard,

TESTFLAG DISABLENQR resolves my problems.

In which situation should I NOT USE   TESTFLAG DISABLENQR ?
In which situation should I     USE   TESTFLAG DISABLENQR ?

Andreas.

> Andreas - In addition to my ADSM-L posting, here's another APAR I found:
>
> IX87848: PERFORMANCE PROBLEM RESTORING SMALL NUMBER OF FILES FROM A NESTE
>  D SUBDIRECTORY
>
>  ORIGINATING DETAILS:
>  Traversing down multiple sub directories and then issuing
>  a restore on a small number of files can result in a delayed
>  start of the restore if the program decides to go through
>  the No Query Restore path. This customer has seen a delay
>  of 40 minutes until the restore started.
>  After enabling the TESTFLAG DISABLENQR (and thus going
>  through the Classic Restore path), restore started with
>  acceptable delay.
>    Richard