Naomi,

I will try that. I was under the impression that using the newobject() function did away with having to use set procedure, thought I might be mistaken.

I actually put the following statements in the calling code and get a different error. "CLass definition RPDSACEAPI is not found." This is different than the previous error.

SET PROCEDURE TO RPDS_ACE_abstract.fxp ADDITIVE
SET PROCEDURE TO rpds_ace_api.fxp ADDITIVE
SET PROCEDURE TO RPDS_ACE_ReportManager.fxp ADDITIVE

loACEAPI = NEWOBJECT( 'rpdsACEapi', 'rpds_ace_api.fxp', '', parm1, parm2, parm3, parm4, parm5 )

I really do appreciate your assitance!
Bruce