Follow-up...I figured out 'part of this...'

I created a class component with a private dataset...i called the class component APPVARS

Within APPVARS, I created a SETDATA and GETDATA.

I was able to instantiate APPVARS from multiple forms and was able to use SETDATA and GETDATA fine.

I don't know if that's the 'proper' way to do it, but it worked fine in my test.

Kevin