I understand...the original post doesn't give all the info. But the most obvious places where you can name cursors are the CREATE CURSOR command, and SELECT ... INTO CURSOR. And if you don't want to wipe out another cursor in the same DS, you need a unique name.

>That's not the way I read it.
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>>Hey Craig,
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>>Why do you say this? He is concerned about the name of the cursor, inside of the program...
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