Re: Embeded SQL retrieving a key from an insert

The given statements seemed to have been messed up. The given "create table" statement was missing the "table libr/filename". The given "SELECT INTO" seemed to have been mixed into\across the signature lines, possibly with the missing table name and table keyword from the CREATE in there too. See what I mean here:
http://archive.midrange.com/cobol400-l/201002/msg00002.html

Even after trying to reconstruct the failing statement with those assumptions, the number of values does not match the column list. Perhaps the statements can be re-posted, perhaps being sure to use "plain text"; i.e. perhaps the problem arose from pasting directly from somewhere like WDSc, versus from a re-copy of the data that had been pasted into a plaintext editor.?

FWiW here is an example from V8 DB2 LUW; note also, where instead of using the column list on the insert to omit the IDENTITY, they used the keyword "default" to represent the element of VALUES which should always generate the identity:

EXEC SQL SELECT ID INTO :new_id
FROM FINAL TABLE(
INSERT INTO company_b VALUES(
default, :name, :department, :job
, :years, :salary, :benefits, :id));

The above example is at the following link, at\beyond the text "SELECT statement references an INSERT statement" in its FROM clause:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/ad/samples/c/s-tbsel-sqc.htm

If that syntax does not work, then perhaps using the function Identity_Val_Local will suffice. See the following thread for a discussion on that function, and a\its reference to the doc for that scalar function, specifically for "Invoking the function within the VALUES clause of an INSERT statement" against another TABLE after the prior INSERT into an IDENTITY column:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201002/msg00067.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/topic/db2/rbafzscaidentity.htm

Regards, Chuck

Cole Gantz wrote:

I've got a table that was created via an SQL statement that looks
like this:
<<SNIP create table>>
I need to get the key that is created when an insert is done
and this is what I've pulled from a sample from a DB2 Cookbook
but I'm getting an error in WDSc when trying to enter it:

Exec SQL

Select HDRHEADKEY
InTo :HeaderKey
From Final Table
(Insert InTo NotePadHd
( HdrDate, HdrTime , HdrUser , HdrCaption
, HdrDesc, HdrInsName, HdrSubject)
Values(:NoteDate, :NoteTime, :NoteUser , /* value? */
' ' , :InsuredName, ' '))

End-Exec

SQL0199 Keyword TABLE not expected. Valid tokens:
FOR WITH FETCH ORDER UNION EXCEPT OPTIMIZE

Am I trying to do something that can't be done? Is there another
way to get the newly created key from an insert to be used in
another table?