I have an application that uses QUERY to do file extracts and quick updates to set status settings to new settings...it just so happens that I am updating a key and so CIUPDATE=ON works wonderfully in that particular situation. Could have written a program and used the other setting, but I was in a hurry. Leonard Berkowitz wrote: > I understand the difference between CIUPDATE=ON and CIUPDATE=ALLOWED (a call to > DBCONTROL mode 5). Can someone provide a scenario where the distinction is > significant? After all the same program[mer] can convert CIUPDATE=ALLOWED to > CIUPDATE=ON. > > Thanks. > ======================== > Leonard S. Berkowitz > mailto:[log in to unmask] > phone: (617) 972-9400 ext. 3250 > fax: (617) 923-5555