Its me again! I visit http://www.denkor.com/hp3000/command_files/index.html but didn't find what I needed. Found other stuff that I can use!!! My mission is to copy the system log files to a flat file then manipulate the data just to see specific sessions in a 24 hour period for a week. I can use SYSDIAG, then logtool to access the system log file but I don't know how to copy them to a flat file. We already have something in place that reads the system log files but create a spoolfile instead. Perhaps, I can use that but then how do you create a flat file out of a spoolfile. TIA Bonnie