>1) What is the most efficient method of assigning a long string to the > 'Send=' keyword in a list header? I have been using multiple 'Send=' > statements. That is the only way to do it. Code as many statements as you need, they will all be concatenated together. No problem. > I attempted to define a variable in the LOCAL SYSVARS file, such as: These variables are an entirely different thing, think about them in terms of system configuration parameters. List header definitions do not refer to these parameters. >2) If the CACHE file has 1 entry per keyword, am I correct in estimating > that the maximun length of the 'Send=' keyword parameter would be > constrained by the 256 LRECL of the CACHE file, or can the CACHE file > contain multiple keyword entries? This is a RECFM V file, so the LRECL is merely that of the longest record. The limit is 64k per keyword (255 before 1.6e). Eric