Kelly, PowerPatch 4 contained a FTP bug, you need a FTP Patch to fix this, FTPFD57A or later (PatchID not surtain). Look for the exact name on the Patch site of HP. Good luck finding the fixing patch, Jan Gerrit Kootstra [log in to unmask] heeft geschreven in bericht ... Greetings. From the can't-explain file: On Monday a Cognos subfile was FTPed from a box with MPE/iX 5.5 Powerpatch 5 (yes, the one with problems) to another box with MPE/iX 5.5 Powerpatch 4. Although the file contained 14,695 records with data on the sending box, the receiving box received the same file with a big hole in the middle - records 11 through 13,116 were blank (as were the end of the 10th record and the beginning of the 13,117th record). FTP on the sending box advertises itself as [A0008S33]. At first I believed this was the problem discussed some time ago when 5.5 PP 5 was first released, i.e. in addition to the DBUTIL/erase issue, that permanent Cognos subfiles would have unexplained 'gaps' in the data. But I was able to confirm that the data on the sending box was whole. When this process was run two weeks ago, there were no holes in the datafile. Two weeks before that, though, there was a hole. (It just took us a while to analyze the problem.) Today I attempted to re-create the file with a hole in another account, but I was unsuccessful. Any ideas? Kelly Exequiel R. Sevilla III (aka Kelly) Raytheon Systems Company 10700 Parkridge Boulevard, Suite 200 Reston, VA 20191-4356 ------------------------------------ [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------ 703.262.4835 (v) 888.760.5206 (p) ------------------------------------ Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was we would hire their contractor. ------------------------------------