Ok; GOT THIS ? 198 (FOC198) FATAL ERROR IN DATABASE I/O. FOCUS TERMINATING %1 A severe error was encountered in reading from or writing to a FOCUS database. FOCUS was unable to recover from this error, and will return to the host environment. When FOCUS was doing this: SQL DB2 SELECT STU_ID AS STU_ID , STU_NAME AS STU_NAME FROM IAPROD.SIS_STU_ATTR_TB ; TABLE FILE SQLOUT SUM STU_NAME BY STU_ID ON TABLE HOLD AS NAMES FORMAT FOCUS INDEX STU_ID END --------------------------------------------------------------- FOCUS 7.2.0S1 16.23.32 06/02/2005 RECON LINE 24 18.02 EX SQLOUT --------------------------------------------------------------- FOCUS 7.2.0S1 16.23.32 06/02/2005 SQLOUT LINE 1 18.02 TABLE FILE SQLOUT SUM STU_NAME BY STU_ID ON TABLE HOLD AS NAMES FORMAT FOCUS INDEX STU_ID END HOLDING FOCUS FILE... NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE=3D 944290 LINES=3D 944290 Maybe, This had run ok once before. . . bobh=20