Nick,
 
  The problem is you  just CAN'T write all the incore  variables to disk (most
of the variables  I use are incore).  Reason? There is NO  function similar to
GLOBALV SELECT grpname LIST that STACKs the output. You can stack the names of
the groups,  and stack  any variable  whose name is  already known.  You can't
stack the names of the variables in a particular group, though. *sigh* IBM...
 
 
  Eric