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Re: Is there a better way to run SQL in a CL pgm?

On 03-Apr-2012 08:41 , Stone, Joel wrote:
" Not sure what the length of the field names has to do with the SQL
statement length for a statement used to generate a column heading
row for CSV, but..."

When building a list of field names, SQL stmts can get lengthy. The
longer each field name, the longer the SQL stmt.

Message . . . . : 11600 - RJSIMAGE/DOCSQL SQLSTM('insert into
qtemp/WORKHEADER values ( ''"Cust0001-Name","Cust0001-address-line1
"," Cust0001-address-line2","Cust0001-address-line3","CUST0001-CITY,"," ...


Yuck. All the more reason to generate them directly from the catalogs. Encapsulated in a function [as a FETCH cursor instead of recursive query even], the above request could become [and once again, eliminating some escaped apostrophes]:

SQLSTM('insert into qtemp/WORKHEADER values(GenHdgsCSV(FileName,LibName))')

Regards, Chuck

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