Hi, First of all, many thanks to all who responded. It is always good to know that you are not alone!
As regards our problem, we now know for certain that the messages were non-persistent. They all disappeared following a scheduled re-start of the system! Our developers are hurriedly changing their code to force persistence. I have re-discovered the MS0G SupportPack (http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/txppacs/ms0g.html). It promises to be very useful. It should provide the insight we need when (if?) the problem re-appears. I can hardly wait ;-) Regards, Alan Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive