I'm not the one who handled the discussion with IBM, but I don't think they have been unwilling to help. There HAS been an administrative screwup on our first call that wasted a couple days, and where IBM was unable to find any trace of us in their support database. So they thought we did not have a support contract. They finally figured it out and said oh, we have a set of fixes for this compiler, we'll send you a tape. Diagnosing compiler problems takes hours to days and it makes sense for them to just send us all the fixes they have to date. So we installed that and it didn't work. We got back to them and they want a sample of the code that reproduces the problem. So we sent that and now they have to figure out what happened. It could take a day or it could take a month. While I don't hesitate to blame IBM when they screw up, they have not yet done so in this case :-) I mean other than having the bug in the first place. Jim Jones is working on installing gcc so that we can provide optimized code while IBM works on the compiler. Eric