Several things I can think of:

- Pass the value to the form when it's called
- Provide a method on the application object to get the value

But I don't understand why SET DATASESSION is a problem.

>Hi everybody,
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>In a form I call a method of the application object, that opens a cursor in a default DS. Is there a simple way of getting to this cursor's field without switching DS in code using SET DATASESSION command?
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>Thanks in advance.