Hi Alex, I checked the maxien before when we ran into some problems with PI. Now that you mentioned it I checked my PI lists again using the result of the foxspy 913 command and found 4 lists containing more than 255 entries. I also found a lot of lists containing very few entries. Allthough it seems to work fine with more than 255 entries, I'll reorganize some lists so that the number of entries drops below 255 and the number of lists/datasets should drop also. I noticed batchsuite is using dataset 25, which has 2500+ entries in it. Is this a problem? If it is, is there a way to split the entries in BatchSuite into multiple datasets? Thanks & Rgds, Dirk Pauwels - DCS/MOC coordinator Engineering dept. Hexion Specialty Chemicals E mail: dirk.pauwels@xxxxxxxxxx T. +32.(0)3.570.95.97 F. +32.(0)3.570.16.09 Mob. +32.(0)497.428.300 Dirk, You have another degree of freedom beside maxds. You can also increase the number of items in a dataset. The default is the maximum, but I've seen systems where it is set lower in foxapi.cfg. The following comes from B0193UD-C, the FoxAPI User's Guide: maxds The maximum number of datasets. The default is 100. The range is 3 to 1000. maxien The maximum number of entries in an Object Manager list. The default is 255. The range is 50 to 255. Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Process Systems 10900 Equity Drive Houston, TX 77041 713 329 8472 (desk) 713 329 1600 (operator) 713 329 1944 (SSC Fax) 713 329 1700 (Central Fax) alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave