Thanks to all for the good info, and to those to replied offline. It seems that the best option is to OPEN/BLDL/STOW/CLOSE to add statistics after writing the member. It doesn't seem so bad, but I realized that I also have to OPEN/BLDL/CLOSE *before* updating an existing member so that I can get any prior statistics so that I can carry forward creation date, version/mod level, etc.
Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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