STOP REBOOT is not enough, you must NODESGEN WTONLY if you use PUTC. PUTC basically does what a R/W link to the disk followed by a COPYFILE would do. And the nodes table generation process is not invoked at re-IPL time. PUTALL acts as a PUT with FAC validation overriden and will invoke the File Access Validation exit which, in our case, issues a NODESGEN WTONLY command itself. The password required is that associated with the FAC of the first filelist up the tree structure that you were allowed to PUT, ie the CTL FAC in our case. CTL maps to "any postmaster" including cc ones, so it should require the createpw which all postmasters are supposed to know. Eric