>I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both?
You haven't been following the DB2 V8 requirements. Even SYNCSORT customers have to have a subset of DFSORT installed. DB2 V8 will not talk to SYNCSORT. It's a free licence (for V8). When in doubt. PANIC!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html