>>Instead of trying to find which process has changed the workarea to an unused one (could be anything that selects into a cursor and then closes it without restoring the workarea on exit), why not just select the one you want immediately before the scatter command?
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>I am glad that you and I think alike :). Yes, as soon as I found this error (which was in the program for a while and the customer(s) never reported it, until I found it in the error log), I added SELECT (AliasName), so in this specific place I won't see this problem.
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>But I was wondering, in general, if there is another place in the program that could potentially cause a problem. I am trying to make my application completely error free :)

It might be more prudent to TRY... CATCH with original code in try and fix in catch - plus logging to show IF it was a spurious or regular error. Then you can decide if you need to follow the steps outlined in other post, but the program can carry on IAC.

my 0.02€

thomas