diff --git a/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/Tier0ChainTests_TestConfiguration.xml b/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/Tier0ChainTests_TestConfiguration.xml
index 408ad643a894016949fbe5d80d476003c949d981..c75ba947f116d75c097d184fd2df030b60a861b0 100755
--- a/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/Tier0ChainTests_TestConfiguration.xml
+++ b/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/Tier0ChainTests_TestConfiguration.xml
@@ -1383,37 +1383,6 @@
</test>
</jobTransform>
</chainElement>
-
- <!-- MC16c MP reco test job -->
- <chainElement>
- <jobTransform userJobId="Reco_MC16c_MP">
- <doc>RecoTrf</doc>
- <jobTransformJobName>Reco_MC16c_MP</jobTransformJobName>
- <jobTransformCmd>
- Reco_tf.py --athenaopts='--nprocs=2' --digiSteeringConf 'StandardSignalOnlyTruth' --conditionsTag 'default:OFLCOND-MC16-SDR-17' --valid 'True' --pileupFinalBunch '6' --numberOfHighPtMinBias '0.152593389' --autoConfiguration 'everything' --numberOfLowPtMinBias '58.3474065525' --steering 'doRDO_TRIG' --preInclude 'HITtoRDO:Digitization/ForceUseOfPileUpTools.py,SimulationJobOptions/preInlcude.PileUpBunchTrainsMC16c_2017_Config1.py,RunDependentSimData/configLumi_run300000_mc16c.py' --postExec 'all:CfgMgr.MessageSvc().setError+=["HepMcParticleLink"]' 'ESDtoAOD:fixedAttrib=[s if "CONTAINER_SPLITLEVEL = \"99\"" not in s else "" for s in svcMgr.AthenaPoolCnvSvc.PoolAttributes];svcMgr.AthenaPoolCnvSvc.PoolAttributes=fixedAttrib' --postInclude 'default:PyJobTransforms/UseFrontier.py' --preExec 'all:rec.Commissioning.set_Value_and_Lock(True);from AthenaCommon.BeamFlags import jobproperties;jobproperties.Beam.numberOfCollisions.set_Value_and_Lock(20.0);from LArROD.LArRODFlags import larRODFlags;larRODFlags.NumberOfCollisions.set_Value_and_Lock(20);larRODFlags.nSamples.set_Value_and_Lock(4);larRODFlags.doOFCPileupOptimization.set_Value_and_Lock(True);larRODFlags.firstSample.set_Value_and_Lock(0);larRODFlags.useHighestGainAutoCorr.set_Value_and_Lock(True)' 'all:from InDetRecExample.InDetJobProperties import InDetFlags; InDetFlags.doWriteTracksToESD.set_Value_and_Lock(True)' 'ESDtoAOD:from TriggerJobOpts.TriggerFlags import TriggerFlags;TriggerFlags.AODEDMSet.set_Value_and_Lock("AODFULL");' 'RDOtoRDOTrigger:from TriggerJobOpts.TriggerFlags import TriggerFlags;TriggerFlags.triggerMenuSetup.set_Value_and_Lock("MC_pp_v7_tight_mc_prescale");' 'RAWtoESD:from TriggerJobOpts.TriggerFlags import TriggerFlags;TriggerFlags.triggerMenuSetup.set_Value_and_Lock("MC_pp_v7_tight_mc_prescale");' --geometryVersion 'default:ATLAS-R2-2016-01-00-01' --numberOfCavernBkg '0' --inputHITSFile=/afs/cern.ch/work/g/gencomm/public/MC16_Samples/valid1.410000.PowhegPythiaEvtGen_P2012_ttbar_hdamp172p5_nonallhad.simul.HITS.e4993_s3091/\* --maxEvents=100 --outputAODFile=myAOD.pool.root --outputRDOFile="myRDO.pool.root" --outputESDFile="myESD.pool.root" --outputTAGFile="myTAG.root" --runNumber=410000 --jobNumber=1 --inputLowPtMinbiasHitsFile=/afs/cern.ch/work/g/gencomm/public/MC16_Samples/mc16_13TeV.361238.Pythia8EvtGen_A3NNPDF23LO_minbias_inelastic_low.merge.HITS.e4981_s3087_s3089/\* --inputHighPtMinbiasHitsFile=/afs/cern.ch/work/g/gencomm/public/MC16_Samples/mc16_13TeV.361239.Pythia8EvtGen_A3NNPDF23LO_minbias_inelastic_high.merge.HITS.e4981_s3087_s3089/\*
- </jobTransformCmd>
- <group>TCTTransform</group>
- <queue>long</queue>
- <batchWallTime>420</batchWallTime>
- <castorSvcClass>t0atlas</castorSvcClass>
- <test>
- <modulename>RttLibraryTools</modulename>
- <testname>FileGrepper</testname>
- <arg>
- <argname>inputFile</argname>
- <argvalue>log.???to???</argvalue> <!-- put this one if you use job log -->
- </arg>
- <arg>
- <argname>outputFile</argname>
- <argvalue>Reco_MC16b.summary.txt</argvalue>
- </arg>
- <arg>
- <argname>searchList</argname>
- <argvalue>successful run</argvalue> <!-- put here the string you should find to mean all ok -->
- </arg>
- </test>
- </jobTransform>
- </chainElement>
</parallel>
diff --git a/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/test_reco_mc16c_mp.sh b/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/test_reco_mc16c_mp.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d8a8446c698f49c0c6236ca4063a1ead53e190e8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Tools/Tier0ChainTests/test/test_reco_mc16c_mp.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# art-description: RecoTrf
-# art-type: grid
-
-Reco_tf.py --athenaopts='--nprocs=2' --digiSteeringConf 'StandardSignalOnlyTruth' --conditionsTag 'default:OFLCOND-MC16-SDR-17' --valid 'True' --pileupFinalBunch '6' --numberOfHighPtMinBias '0.152593389' --autoConfiguration 'everything' --numberOfLowPtMinBias '58.3474065525' --steering 'doRDO_TRIG' --preInclude 'HITtoRDO:Digitization/ForceUseOfPileUpTools.py,SimulationJobOptions/preInlcude.PileUpBunchTrainsMC16c_2017_Config1.py,RunDependentSimData/configLumi_run300000_mc16c.py' --postExec 'all:CfgMgr.MessageSvc().setError+=["HepMcParticleLink"]' 'ESDtoAOD:fixedAttrib=[s if "CONTAINER_SPLITLEVEL = \"99\"" not in s else "" for s in svcMgr.AthenaPoolCnvSvc.PoolAttributes];svcMgr.AthenaPoolCnvSvc.PoolAttributes=fixedAttrib' --postInclude 'default:PyJobTransforms/UseFrontier.py' --preExec 'all:rec.Commissioning.set_Value_and_Lock(True);from AthenaCommon.BeamFlags import jobproperties;jobproperties.Beam.numberOfCollisions.set_Value_and_Lock(20.0);from LArROD.LArRODFlags import larRODFlags;larRODFlags.NumberOfCollisions.set_Value_and_Lock(20);larRODFlags.nSamples.set_Value_and_Lock(4);larRODFlags.doOFCPileupOptimization.set_Value_and_Lock(True);larRODFlags.firstSample.set_Value_and_Lock(0);larRODFlags.useHighestGainAutoCorr.set_Value_and_Lock(True)' 'all:from InDetRecExample.InDetJobProperties import InDetFlags; InDetFlags.doWriteTracksToESD.set_Value_and_Lock(True)' 'ESDtoAOD:from TriggerJobOpts.TriggerFlags import TriggerFlags;TriggerFlags.AODEDMSet.set_Value_and_Lock("AODFULL");' 'RDOtoRDOTrigger:from TriggerJobOpts.TriggerFlags import TriggerFlags;TriggerFlags.triggerMenuSetup.set_Value_and_Lock("MC_pp_v7_tight_mc_prescale");' 'RAWtoESD:from TriggerJobOpts.TriggerFlags import TriggerFlags;TriggerFlags.triggerMenuSetup.set_Value_and_Lock("MC_pp_v7_tight_mc_prescale");' --geometryVersion 'default:ATLAS-R2-2016-01-00-01' --numberOfCavernBkg '0' --inputHITSFile=/cvmfs/atlas-nightlies.cern.ch/repo/data/data-art/Tier0ChainTests/valid1.410000.PowhegPythiaEvtGen_P2012_ttbar_hdamp172p5_nonallhad.simul.HITS.e4993_s3091/* --maxEvents=100 --outputAODFile=myAOD.pool.root --outputRDOFile="myRDO.pool.root" --outputESDFile="myESD.pool.root" --outputTAGFile="myTAG.root" --runNumber=410000 --jobNumber=1 --inputLowPtMinbiasHitsFile=/cvmfs/atlas-nightlies.cern.ch/repo/data/data-art/Tier0ChainTests/mc16_13TeV.361238.Pythia8EvtGen_A3NNPDF23LO_minbias_inelastic_low.merge.HITS.e4981_s3087_s3089/* --inputHighPtMinbiasHitsFile=/cvmfs/atlas-nightlies.cern.ch/repo/data/data-art/Tier0ChainTests/mc16_13TeV.361239.Pythia8EvtGen_A3NNPDF23LO_minbias_inelastic_high.merge.HITS.e4981_s3087_s3089/*