Raj

Not knowing exactly what you are trying to do, but if all you want to do is create the cursor culist2 then:

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

If culist2 is a variable:

culist2 = "mycursor"
CREATE CURSOR (culist2) (project_no C(3), workpkg_no c(5),sub_title c(50))

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