FWIW, if you didn't want to pull the information down, a quick and cheap (short-term) solution could be to schedule the different jobs to regularly push it to servers/PCs via FTP or Samba. Curtis >>> "Paveza, Gary" <[log in to unmask]> 09/02/99 12:54PM >>> Okay, it seems like my week for asking questions *sigh* Has anyone done any work with enabling a cobol program to act as a listening process on the 3000 to handle requests from a VB application? I have a program that our support people can run to gather statistical information about the applications, but they have to logon to each machine to run it. Now that we have grown from 2 3000s to 5 (and more to follow) it makes more sense to organize this information somehow and provide a convenient way to access it, so I thought of a listener process that can run. Then the support people just fire up a client and get the information they want. ------------------------------- Gary L. Paveza, Jr. Technical Support Specialist All opinions are mine and not those of my employer ----------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail transmission may contain confidential or legally privileged information that is intended only for the individual or entity named in the e-mail address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance upon the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please reply to the sender, so that Covance can arrange for proper delivery, and then please delete the message from your inbox. Thank you.