Can WHENEVER NOT FOUND Handler be used in a FOR loop - stored-procedures

Question

Can a WHENEVER NOT FOUND Handler be used when there are no rows in a FOR loop?
I'm writing a template stored procedure generator as part of a 2E model transformation. I have thousands of 2E functions that I will need a stored procedure format and I'm trying to find the best and most efficient general case template for each type of 2E function.
This is my template proceedure
CREATE PROCEDURE SP_M3_000TSG (
IN HONB DECIMAL(9, 0)
, OUT ABCD CHAR(3) DEFAULT ' '
, OUT EECD CHAR(6) DEFAULT ' '
, OUT RTN CHAR(7) DEFAULT NULL
)
LANGUAGE SQL
PROGRAM TYPE SUB
-- #######################################################################
-- # SP_M3_000TSG
-- #######################################################################
BEGIN
DECLARE SQLCODE INTEGER DEFAULT 0;
DECLARE SQLSTATE CHAR(5) DEFAULT '00000';
M3_INIT:BEGIN
-- do some init stuff
END M3_INIT;
FOR M3_000TSG
**declare WHENEVER NOT FOUND **
AS CUR_ECDQREL1 CURSOR
FOR
SELECT * FROM ECDQREL1 WHERE DQHONB = HONB
DO
do some stuff;
END FOR;
GO TO M3_EXIT;
M3_NO_ROWS: BEGIN
do some stuff for no rows;
END M3_NO_ROWS;
M3_EXIT: BEGIN
do some stuff;
RETURN;
END M3_EXIT;
END

Answer 1

With current versions of Db2, you cannot use WHENEVER NOT FOUND syntax inside SQL-PL procedures.
Instead, you can use this syntax only in embedded-SQL programs where the pre-compiler acts on it.
In SQL-PL procedures, you can either declare a handler for NOT FOUND, or you can code checks for SQLCODE 100 or SQLSTATE '02000' .