I would like to thank all those who responded to my question about using ioconfig.pub.sys and having to rebuild the associate table after running it on mpei/x 5.5.  I decided that I liked the answer "if it works and it ain't broke, don't fix it".  We don't use associate commands.

Curt Brimacomb
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