I will look into the read-me files from this and another reply. Thanks for pointing me someplace. Not sure why this is my issue to track down as I am not a sysadmin on the server I only maintain the database on it. But I will certainly learn something from the process. I assume that anything already written in PERL under a 32-bit OS will function as-is under 64-bit and won't require any rewritting? These scripts are not complex they simply help me and other dba's with our daily jobs.