# Set maxvar issues in SOEPremote

**URL:** <https://forum.lifbi.de/t/set-maxvar-issues-in-soepremote/5235>\
**Category:** FDZ SOEP\
**Tags:** soepremote, stata, fdz\_soep\
**Created:** [8. September 2025 um 06:44 UTC](https://forum.lifbi.de/t/set-maxvar-issues-in-soepremote/5235 "2025-09-08T06:44:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Elena\_K](https://forum.lifbi.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@Elena\_K](https://forum.lifbi.de/u/Elena_K)\
**Post date:** [8. September 2025 um 06:44 UTC](https://forum.lifbi.de/t/set-maxvar-issues-in-soepremote/5235/1 "2025-09-08T06:44:51Z")

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I am using SOEP remote. I would like to access the pl.dta to select a subset of variables from the dataset to run my analysis. When I sent the job I received a warning saying that I needed to use the command “set maxvar” to be able to open the dataset. However, when I included this line of code I received another error:

set maxvar 10000  
command set maxvar is unrecognized  
r(199)

How can I access the pl.dta avoiding these issues?

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**Author:** ![SOEP\_P.Kaminsky](https://forum.lifbi.de/user_avatar/forum.lifbi.de/soep_p.kaminsky/32/205_2.png) [@SOEP\_P.Kaminsky](https://forum.lifbi.de/u/SOEP_P.Kaminsky)\
**Post date:** [16. September 2025 um 11:45 UTC](https://forum.lifbi.de/t/set-maxvar-issues-in-soepremote/5235/2 "2025-09-16T11:45:41Z")

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Dear Elena,

I’m sorry for the late reply, I’ve been on vacation during the last week.

As I can see, in the meantime the issue already got solved by my colleagues.  
After the last update, we unfortunately forgot to set maxvar and it seems like your attempts have been during this time before it was set by us.  
The set maxvar command is not available for users as we have limited technical ressources, so there is a preset maxvar defined by us.

Kind regards  
Philipp