> LISTS (static on filedisk) BTW: can you code the same (e.g X2/202) for the > FILEDISK sysvar ?) No, it must be static. One of the reasons is that it's where the LISTS stuff is. >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. I don't understand. BITEARN is static and doesn't require a DATABASE REFRESH. If CICS-L doesn't have a DBNAMES file, it just means nobody has ever used database functions on it. Eric