Michel, There is a way indeed using ODBC. But, as far as I'm concerned I've not succeeded in opening any table in TSM with a silent login (i.e. passing UID and PWD directly to the driver). I get a "Catastrophic failure" and I don't know why. I've submitted that problem to Tivoli so far. I get no error if I accept the logon dialog. However if you don't mind being prompted for those information, it is a way to check the activity log by sending the query "SELECT * FROM ACTLOG" (assuming you have linked ACTLOG to an MS Access DB). Regards, Vince -----Message d'origine----- De : Michel David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 25 juillet 2000 11:52 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : API: TRying to read ACTLOG Hi everbody anb thanks for precedent answers I am trying to read ACTLOG message to ask "How Are YOu?" to the server all the time. I succeed to do this with batch file is there another possibility e.g. with ODBC ? Thank you __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/