Hi Eric,

Turns out it is probably a Novell issue with the number of record locks.

Even without the transaction, the tableupdate fails if the records affected exceeds 500 or so.

Thanks,

Ken

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>Have you checked AERROR to see why your TABLEUPDATE is failing?
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>>Playing around with this shows that there is an apparent limitation on the number of records around the 500 mark.
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>I have never heard of this, but I have not personally tried to push this limit... what happens if you attempt the whole thing without transactions?