>I can. But the query with ORDER BY on the initial cursor will be of a different name. And this will lead to making a bunch of changes in the code. So I was trying to stay with the same cursor name to avoid making other changes.
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>I don't know if you read what Naomi said, but she thinks that the initial ORDER BY should work.
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>I will have to run some tests.

I stand by my statement. The following works for me

SELECT * FROM (ALIAS()) ;
	INTO CURSOR (ALIAS()) ;
	ORDER BY ...