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9.7.3.2 MOVE

MOVE [ direction { FROM | IN } ] cursor;

MOVE repositions a cursor without retrieving any data. MOVE works exactly like the FETCH command, except it only repositions the cursor and does not return the row moved to. As with SELECT INTO, the special variable FOUND can be checked to see whether there was a next row to move to.

The direction clause can be any of the variants allowed in the SQL Volume 1B: 1.109 FETCH command, namely NEXT, PRIOR, FIRST, LAST, ABSOLUTE count, RELATIVE count, ALL, FORWARD [ count | ALL ], or BACKWARD [ count | ALL ]. Omitting direction is the same as specifying NEXT. direction values that require moving backward are likely to fail unless the cursor was declared or opened with the SCROLL option.

Examples:

MOVE curs1;
MOVE LAST FROM curs3;
MOVE RELATIVE -2 FROM curs4;
MOVE FORWARD 2 FROM curs4;