>I am doing the following but i am getting error (not character expression)
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>CREATE CURSOR (culist2) (project_no C(3), workpkg_noc(5),sub_title(50))
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>Thank you very much.

First, don't enclose cursor name in patenthesis because it will be treated as a name expression. Second you've to provide type for all fields.

CREATE CURSOR culist2 (project_no C(3), workpkg_noc C(5),sub_title C(50))