is this a problem?

This will also happen if there is fragmentation of the table into two or more dbspaces - each fragment has its own partnum. Check in the sysfragments table in the cars database, which will also give you the fragmentation expression. Or use dbschema -d cars -t gu_prereg_pay -ss (or systabperm - which AFAIK is not a system catalog table unless it's an earlier version or possibly SE). Cheers Malc