I was aware that I can use XEDIT :-) (actually I did !) *-* I did no DATABASE REFRESH but immediately after starting I checked BITEARN (static) LISTS (static on filedisk) BTW: can you code the same (e.g X2/202) for the FILEDISK sysvar ?) PEERS (static on A) CICS-L (dynamic, NOTEBOOKs) with no problems at all. Also only for BITEARN and PEERS I found a DBNAMES file. Thus only BITEARN would require it in my case. Christian