On 17 Jun 2011, at 12:00, Mark Wickens wrote: On 17/06/11 11:55, Mark Benson wrote: Even if you don't recreate the license database every year, as far as I can see the license file is just a (DCL?) script that runs 'LICENSE REGISTER' for each License you are granted. 5 mins and a decent editor and you could easily create one to rip out each license by name too, right? Can LICENSE do that? I think it can IIRC. IIRC the issue is when you start getting multiple licenses for the same product name, as you then have to differentiate them by application date/expired status. There was a DCL procedure on either comp.os.vms or VMS Hobbyist site which you could run against any database and it would remove all expired licenses. That's the lazy approach. I like it ;) Apparently you can purge history records inthe License Database 9after backing it up, of course) using: LICENSE DELETE /STATUS=EXTINCT * Is that what we were looking for to remove expired licenses? -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..."