>Use Whatever again alias NewAlias of Datasession nOtherDataSessionNumber
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>I've tried all the possible mental gymnastics to open such a cursor-in-the-air from a different datasession, and couldn't find a sure way (short ot copying it into a temp table, but that sort of defeats the idea).

True enough -- but it seems in trying to create such as beast that one is sort of fighting against the private datasesion concept, also...