Thank you Helen & Stefan for your replies.

I Understand the danger of overwriting the DB & would not normally do
so.

However I found the problem, ME!
In order to capture the user name & password I used IBO_Connection with
a connect statement, idiot.

Why the - c option worked, since I was only testing I just entered the
user name & password as strings.

I will find a different method of capturing user details.

Sorry to have wasted your time, but please dont give up on us Dummies.

Jack