Column Tree: returning to selection screen

Guys,
In a moment of pure genious I've created a work-of-art with column-trees. The report works great - except for one little problem....
I can't seem to get back to the selection-screen without loosing the original selection-screen values.
I've tried heaps of things without luck:
set screen 0, leave screen
call selection screen 1000
call transaction ....
leave program
leave program to screen 0
Any better ideas?

From the SAP documentation :
>>
Ends current processing and starts the (new) transaction tcod. All previous internal sessions are deleted from the stack and one new internal session is opened for the program of the transaction that was called. When this session has finished, the system returns to the next higher area menu.
<<
If you close the session, you will loose all the memory, so all the parameters that is not in the memory with a SET PARAMETER ID ...
Fred

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gt_knb1        TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF knb1.
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gt_fcat_t001   TYPE slis_t_fieldcat_alv,
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*     I_INTERNAL_TABNAME           =
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*     I_BUFFER_ACTIVE              =
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*     I_CALLBACK_HTML_END_OF_LIST       = ' '
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*     I_GRID_SETTINGS                   =
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*     ES_EXIT_CAUSED_BY_USER            =
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*     PROGRAM_ERROR                     = 1
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*         I_BYPASSING_BUFFER                = ' '
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DATA :
BEGIN OF value_tab OCCURS 0,
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DATA: t_fldtab LIKE dfies OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
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t_dynmap-dyfldname = 'P_TEXT'.
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            dynpnr          = '1000'
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            dynpfld_mapping = t_dynmap
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Please help me on my dillema. I have 2 reports, zreport1 and zreport2. Now, zreport1 submits
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Hi,
Try this
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Set something in the memmory.
this can be used to check the completion of the report.
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If u dont have any thing to execute after sumbit report
then u can do is.
START-OF-SELECTION.
*----------Sumbit Report-------*
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I just wanted to know why resultset returned the number of all records in that column when I only selected the last.
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They are all fine now.
Thanks guys.
Booh1(old lady)

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