>Jim, if he used SYS(2015) in it's entirety, he wouldn't have the problem - SYS(2015) prepends a unique 9 character string with an underscore to always create a valid name.

Hehe, Web Connect uses this to create a Session ID, and we use the session ID to build a cursor or another table, but he strips the underscore. 3-2-1 it bombed on Y2K, only had to append a character to the front though. :-)