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I thought DDL and DML could not use variable names for objects (tables,
columns, etc.). At least, that's been my experience with i5/OS and SQL
Server. (I.e., cannot perform "select * from :tablename")

In other words, this is not a "DB2" thing, but an SQL issue.

HTH,
Loyd

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Campin
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SQL statements in a SQL Stored Procedure.

<snip>

IBM is saying I must execute the DROP statement dynamically. That
doesn't
make much sense to me that I would have to do that.



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