Not sure of the difference here, but I had some code that was working with $Vend::Scratch->{variable} on IC 4.6 and when I moved it up to IC 4.8 I have to use $::Scratch->{variable}. 1. Can someone explain difference to an Interchange newbie? 2. Is there a _standard_ way to refer to [scratch] (as well as other data) items in Perl code? Thanks. Tim