Hi Craig,

>SET TALK ON will display a progress bar.
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>Make sure there is an index on pireq.csitecode
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>The &lcfor will never be optimized.

Actually that is not true. If lcfor contains an optimizable expression it will be optimized.
The macro will the extracted and after that the command will be compiled before executing. From this point there is absolutely no difference between a compiled at runtime command and a compile at design time command.

Walter,