A DFSMSdfp component for implementing, verifying, and maintaining a DFSMS storage management subsystem (SMS) environment in batch mode. NaviQuest is the batch equivalent of Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF). It provides batch testing and reporting capabilities that can be used to automatically provide these functions: create test cases in bulk; run many other storage management tasks in batch mode; and use supplied, access method services (ACS), code fragments as models when creating ACS routines.