You can search the SAS documentation for the phrase: "Lotus Notes" or "Notes Documents" and you will find a topic called "Introduction to Using Lotus Notes with SAS". Down inside that topic is a link to a section called "Retrieving Information from Preexisting Notes Documents" which contains an example of the syntax you'd need. Or, you could contact Tech Support for more specific information. The first paragraph of this help topic says: "The SAS/ACCESS to ODBC pass-through engine enables you to retrieve information about existing Notes documents in a Notes database. Using ODBC to Retrieve Information from Preexisting Notes Documents shows an example of how to use the DATA step to retrieve information from the Business Card Request database." cynthia ... View more