Ok, thanks, Leland, it does sound like your symptoms match the problem, a nd I'm quite confident the fixtest will help substantially. Let us know how it goes. I'm the guy responsible for the VM64297 fix, so I'll get back to driving it through to closure - our current target date is the end of the
month, 10/31, which I'm fairly confident we'll make. - Bill Holder, IBM Endicott, z/VM Development and Service