> Thanks Helen. Any ideas as to how I could do this?
>

You could try something like this:

xTmp = gen_id(GEN_MSGS, -gen_id(GEN_MSGS));
xTmp = gen_id(GEN_MSGIMPORTS, -gen_id(GEN_MSGIMPORTS));
xTmp = gen_id(GEN_TXNERROR, -gen_id(GEN_TXNERROR));

where xTmp is just an integer variable. Not sure if this executes fast
enough in a multi-user environment, though.

Woody (TMW)

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