An answer to the question of what cursors are used for in DB2.
DB2 Cursors

For anyone using db2 databases, there will be occasions where you need to perform general processing from the command line. Here is a list of all the db2 Commands available for you to use.

I spent over twenty years programming mainframe computers using either Cobol or Pl/1 (depending on where I was working at the time). As a result, when I set up my computer help site,, a large section of the site was dedicated to answering mainframe questions.
With the outsourcing of most of the mainframe programming jobs to [...]