I'm sorry, I can't do anything about that. This restriction is of course totally ridiculous, but IBM doesn't see any problem there. The stuff you define in LOCAL SYSVARS et al has to go into GLOBALV variables, because that's where 20k+ lines of code expect it, not to mention a bunch of local extensions/modifications. You could make a local mod for this particular variable of course, but potentially just about any variable could exceed the limit. Eric