Leonard S. Berkowitz wrote after I wrote: >QUERYNM has been around for a while, 4.0 I think is when we noticed it. HP >recommended that we not do on 4.0 what you are suggesting. What do you know >that has changed? --------------------------------------------------------- >> >>Almost overlooked something after our new 959KS >>went online today: Even after installing Express-3 >>release of MPE (C.50.03), the QUERY in PUB.SYS >>is still CM. You have to RENAME or PURGE >>QUERY; then RENAME QUERYNM,QUERY to >>get native mode. [....SNIP my stuff....] Confess I don't recall ever hearing that HP flat out recommended not doing this even on 4.0, but from your experience obviously someone did. I can't speak for the Database Lab, but I certainly got the impression from the RC that turning QUERYNM into QUERY is now fully supported. Maybe someone from HP would like to comment ? Also note that RC told me this is the only file HP sends out in this catagory, where you have to do a PURGE/RENAME plus RENAME to get NM. Ken Sletten