>By the way, the reason it doesn't work is because SYS(3) returns a string with numbers in it. And you can't select into a cursor with an alias name of a numeric-only string. In other words, SELECT...INTO CURSOR 12345678 is an illegal operation (because 12345678 is an illegal alias name... alias names have to start with a non-numeric character).
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>--Brad

You're extremely right! I forgot the cursor was temp, since i use into table most of the time ( in order to do some work on the table before printing for example ). Thx a lot!!

Jaime