I just noticed that IBM updated its unsupported IFS Tools last July. In particular, the QRYIFSLIB tool now has options to skip specific directories and automatically skip QSYS.LIB and others you wouldn't want anyway. Details are in document 19175649 in the Registered Software Knowledge Base at http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase...gdocs?openform. You can get the source & utilities from savefile, IFSTOOL.SAVF, at ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/as400...bm/ApiSamples/ Save it to your PC, then FTP to your iSeries.