Retrieve 10 rows 4m a TABLE which has 1000 rws using CURSOR?

samimaktar · New User Joined: 03 Aug 2009 Posts: 25 Location: Singapore

Hi Friends,
1. I want to retrieve 10 rows from a TABLE which has 1000 rows using CURSOR without fetching all the records(1000 rows)?
2. Consider a table has 'm' rows. I want to retrieve 'n' (n<m) rows where we will pass the value of 'n' dynamically? Is it possible to pass value to 'n' dynamically?

dick scherrer · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:11 am

Hello,

1. FETCH the first 10 and then end the process. The other 990. will not be fetched.

2. Yes. You can pick the method to get the value into the program (parm, sysin, vsam file, database table, whatever).

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:24 am

Here again, a little reading of an SQL Reference would probably help you.
FETCH FIRST

ajeshrn · New User Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 78 Location: India

Hi samimaktar,

Is your requirement like u should be able to fetch first n records dynamically.That means the value of n can vary from time to time?If thats what you are looking for then use a dynamic sql and move what ever value u want to the variable.Just a sample code.I have done this in my aplication program.It works:
Ex:

05 WS-VAR1 CHAR(50)
'SELECT * FROM A.TABLE1 FETCH FIRST'
05 WS-VALN CHAR(02)
05 WS-VAR1 CHAR(20)
'ROWS ONLY'.