>Does anybody know if there is a down side to calling an API declare statement more that once?
Well, of course you would have the slight time required to execute the DECLARE statement. For this reason alone, I would recommend putting all DECLARE statements in your startup program, where they are invoked only once.
I don't know if there is any other problem.
Hilmar.
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