Eric: I *know* I can change the INACT variable. However, this loses if it really *does* go INACTIVE. WHat I ended up doing was adding another ParseDRAIN variable, *and* modifying LSV$LMNR to say basically if (parseINACT or parseDRAIN then signal INACTIVE; I just thought I'd bring it to you (and the lists) attention. BTW - yet ANOTHER 'just modify the parse in LMON SYSVARS' gotcha: The code as shipped doesn't deal with RSCS's that insist on returning LINK xxxxxxxx INACTIVE when 'xxxxxxxxx' is the link name with LEADING blanks to make a constant 8 wide. And yes, I was able to figure this one out too - just mentioning it for the NEXT person who may trip over it - took me 15 minutes of editing in SAY statements before I clued in (but then, this WAS at 2AM). Valdis