== Why is this an issue? It is a bad practice to declare a cursor inside a procedure division, so you should avoid it. ifdef::env-github,rspecator-view[] ''' == Comments And Links (visible only on this page) === on 17 Mar 2015, 20:01:56 Ann Campbell wrote: \[~freddy.mallet] do we have any more detail on why this is a bad practice? I find this rule description unsatisfyingly short endif::env-github,rspecator-view[]