Hmm, I don't think there is any way to change this right now, because as you said this is not submitted in a job. The code that processes the xxx-SEARCH-REQUEST messages generates a job internally, and this is where the output limit would have to be specified. I'm inclined to modify this code to add an output line limit identical to "Sizelim=" if one is present (hey Nathan, one more change for the keyword docs :-) ). Would that be sufficient/adequate? Eric