Sorin and George, Thank you for caring! :) Back in the 2.6 days, when there _was_ only one datasession available, I used to dump a display status into an alternate file. It may not be very elegant, but since it is for my own consumption in maintenance, it is appropriate, and face it, in cases of program errors, disp status gives us plenty of information at a very low development price. ... and George, I think you are right, if we want the same functionality in VFP, we will have to work for it and develop something along the lines of what you suggest. It seems silly though, because datasessions as a concept is related to the database rather than to oop, so why is there no way programatically, (from the menu you can under window/datasession long after the owning objects are dead and burried!) , to access existing datasessions? Marc It's not necessarily Display Status functionality that we criticize. I would imagine that, at one point, I'd like to know what tables are open and what's their status when the error occured. Of course, using .FormCount and SETting DATASESSION TO every form's DataSessionId would get us closer, but the duckling is still ugly. To conclude, I (as a novice) think it would be very helpful, as you (George) mentioned, to have forms, at least those using Private Datasession, log themselves into a tablelike structure where they can be referenced when needed. Sorin >Now that's a nice can of worms, isn't it? > >One solution I can think of would involve retrieving all the open forms, and using AMEMBERS() to examine the .DataEnvironment. I guess the .Forms and .FormCount properties could be used, but I haven't figured out the actual mechanics. 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