>I asked Ken Levy about possibility of doing something like
>Select * from mytable into cursor mycursor datasessionid x
>but he couldn't see the justification at the time.

What I'd like to see is a global or shared datassession that could be accessed from within many private datasessions. That way system tables could be opened and referenced there and still have the benefit of private datasessions for specific type application data. Closing the private datasession would only close those tables, leaving the "shared" session open.