Hi Nancy,

I did find a way around this...

I SET NULL ON before I created the cursor and all is ok...

So I'll add one for ALTER TABLE... to the list

Thanks

>>When I use ALTER TABLE to add a .null. to a column in a cursor the field names are all trimmed to 10 characters in length. Is there another way to work around this??
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>Only tables contained in a DBC (or memory cursors) can have names longer than 10 characters. Once you issue the ALTER table you are altering the temporary table on disk (which is a free table).