Sridhar, anyway your comment about R5 got me experimenting and I found about the tertiary_vmb.exe. R5:0 does not work at all. it just freezes. 22-FEB-2002 13:12:02.04 Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from LARGE Requested file: DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS_LOAD.EXE 22-FEB-2002 13:12:04.35 Load succeeded for LARGE on ESA0 MOP V3 format, Tertiary loader, DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NI SCS_LOAD.EXE Packets: 544 sent, 544 received Bytes: 136509 sent, 1632 received, 133241 loaded Elapsed time: 00:00:02.13, 62554 bytes/second But by setting R5:100 and using the TERTIARY_VMB.EXE it works better; and then TERTIARY_VMB loads NISCS_LOAD.EXE. 22-FEB-2002 17:36:27.60 Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from LARGE Requested file: LAN$DLL:TERTIARY_VMB.EXE 22-FEB-2002 17:36:28.82 Load succeeded for LARGE on ESA0 MOP V3 format, Tertiary loader, LAN$DLL:TERTIARY_VMB.EXE Packets: 318 sent, 318 received Bytes: 79736 sent, 954 received, 77824 loaded Elapsed time: 00:00:01.05, 74118 bytes/second 22-FEB-2002 17:36:38.36 Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from LARGE Requested file: DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS_LOAD.EXE 22-FEB-2002 17:36:42.08 Load succeeded for LARGE on ESA0 MOP V3 format, System image, DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS _LOAD.EXE Packets: 544 sent, 544 received Bytes: 136541 sent, 1632 received, 133277 loaded Elapsed time: 00:00:03.55, 37543 bytes/second On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Julius Sridhar wrote: -- Saku Set?l? System Planning Manager Kolumbus Oy http://www.kolumbus.com/ Elisa Communications Group