While trying IMAGE/SQL I eventually wrote a Transact/iX program to query the Dictionary and produce a script file containing all the necessary UPDATE TYPE commands to convert the DECIMAL type columns so they include the decimals we have in all our P fields. Apart from the fact that I'd be happy to email the source to anyone interested (I wonder if that would brake any company copyright laws ?), I'm wondering what others have done to get around this. Costas Anastassiades, Intracom SA Athens-Greece