DETAILS If you import this schema and do a sir file dump of the one record then it will crash. EXAMPLE PROGRAM RUN NAME CATCOL EXPORT TASK NAME INITIALIZATION CREATE DATABASE CATCOL JOURNAL OFF CASE ID ID (A) N OF CASES 1000 RECS PER CASE 1023 MAX INPUT COLS 80 RECTYPE COLS 78 79 MAX REC TYPES 30 MAX REC COUNT 100 TASK NAME Record Definition for CIR RECORD SCHEMA 0 CIR DATA LIST ID * (A8) END SCHEMA TASK NAME Record Definition for REC Record Number 1 RECORD SCHEMA 1 REC MAX REC COUNT 1 DATA LIST ID * (A8) CAT1 * (A2) CAT VARS CAT1 ('0' '1a' '1b' ) MISSING VALUES CAT1 ('-1') VALUE LABELS CAT1 ('0')'Value 1' ('1a')'Value 2' ('1b')'Value 3' ('-1')'Value 8' VAR LABEL CAT1 'Cat Var number 1' END SCHEMA STRING LENGTH 32 REMARK 'Begin import of members' PROCEDURE SYSTEM.DUMP:T (155372,39589) |Last amended Mar 06, 2008,10:59:49 sir file dump filename="catcol.dat" rectype=1 END PROCEDURE REMARK 'Import of members complete' TASK NAME IMPORT IMPORT 1 0/1/11/1/1/ WORKAROUND It will not crash if you specify I/O columns in the schema rather than "*" and it will also not crash if you reduce the number of valid values by one.