Will REF CURSOR support for Oracle Forms 6i?

Question

Hi,
I need to use ref cursor in my from. My cursor query should be dynamically append the "where clause". Hence I used the dynamic query with ref cursor.
But my problem is , when I compile the form it gives error for the line " OPEN emp_record FOR l_query;"
You need to use "select" statement.
Is there any solution for this in forms?
I know it supports for other PL/SQL areas.
Please help me. below is my code sample,
  DECLARE
TYPE emp_refcur IS REF CURSOR;
emp_record    emp_refcur;
TYPE rec_emp_data IS RECORD
    emp_no              VARCHAR2(40),
  emp_rec             rec_emp_data;
  l_query               VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
     l_query := 'SELECT empno
                 FROM emp ';
      IF :CONTROL.ename IS NOT NULL THEN     
          l_query := l_query||' AND ename = '''||:CONTROL.ename||''' ';           
      END IF;
     OPEN emp_record FOR l_query;
     LOOP
        FETCH emp_record INTO emp_rec;
        EXIT WHEN emp_record%NOTFOUND;
       dbms_output.put_line(emp_rec.emp_no);
    END LOOP;
    CLOSE emp_record;     
END;      Thanks
Rajesh

Answer 1

Hi,
It's been a while since I used Forms 6i, but I remember hitting a similar problem. I don't think (and stress think!) that the PLSQL engine that comes with Forms 6i recognises ref_cursors.
The work-around I used was to move the functionality to the database and call it from forms.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Ian