Gary, - Here Goes, ? to show you where I am not 100% sure .... >>Could someone humor me for a few moments on the differences of Image/3000, >>TurboImage, and Image/SQL? No detail answers, just a simple yes or no or even >>better, a source to find the answers: >>What is the difference between the three? Image/3000 - Old version of Image database, with several limitations on size and capacity this was replaced by Turboimage in ..... T-Mit? .... on MPE TurboImage - As for Image3000 but with limits greatly increased - Supported on older machines and newer MPE/XL & iX machines Image/SQL - TurboImage with SQL connectivity extensions - you can connect a TurboImage database to a SQL DBE and make most accesses through normal SQL tools, only? on MPE/XL & iX boxes. Is a chargeable option? >>Is there a conversion process that needs to be done to get from one to >>another? Yes - Image/3000 to Turbo - DBCONV Turbo to SQL - Create DBE and perform field mappings >>Are programs which access them affected(ie. code changes)? Not if they are just using the standard calls to the DB... intrinsics >>We've just installed MPE/ix 5.0 and would like to take advantage of the >>dynamic dataset expansion with the latest product. Unfortunately, it seems the >>conversion has not been done(one of our applications abended from a full >>dataset). DDX has to be enabled on each dataset required , either at DBSCHEMA time or using tools like ADAGER, DBGENERAL .. other products are available. Hope this helps, i'll let someone else tell you which documents to find more in. David Randall 100126,[log in to unmask]