Resolution:
Description:
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The cursor will examine n topics/queues from the list of existing topics/queues and return only those matching the pattern supplied in the command.

show topics [pattern-name [notemp|static|dynamic] [first=n|next=n|last=n]]
show queues [pattern-name [notemp|static|dynamic] [first=n|next=n|last=n]]

For example:
‘show topics TEST.> first=2’

And the following topics exist on the EMS server
>
TEST.1
TEST.2
TEST.3
TEST.4
TEST.5

EMS will take the first three existing topics and return from those it examines only those that match the pattern ‘TEST.>’.

Expected behaviour will be to take the first two topics (‘>’ and ‘TEST.1’) and return from these two those topic names which match pattern ‘TEST.>’, which will be ‘TEST.1’ only.

From the documentation:
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“The cursor examines n topics and displays topics that match the pattern-name. Because it does not traverse the full list of topics, the cursor may return zero or fewer than n topics. To find all matching topics, continue to use next until you receive a Cursor complete message.”
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Environment:
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Why does the show topics/queues cursor feature return n-1 topics/queues when the first=n is specified?