RE: runsqlstm

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There is also a related limitation that you cannot have a SELECT statement
be a prepared SQL statement.  For example, I had a remote system without
SQL so I wrote a SQLRPGLE program to run sql statements.  Works great on
many sql statements but you cannot use it to run the SELECT statement.
Thus we use it for UPDATES, etc but use another (RUNSQL) for the select
statement.  We just didn't like the RUNSQL because of some strange bugs.

RUNSQL came out of an ancient issue of news/400 and utilizes STRQMQRY,
which all 400's have.

Rob Berendt
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James Rich <james@eaerich.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Buck Calabro wrote:

> >It seems that no matter what I do,
> >it fails with the message (in my
> >spooled file result):
> >
> > SQL0084 Position 7 SQL statement not allowed.
>
> I looked at the documentation but could not find the restriction.  You
> cannot run a SELECT statement.  That's my guess.

It turns out that the select limitation is what I was running into (I did
finally find the docs that say this).  Anyone know why there is this
(stupid) limitation?  Why wouldn't I be able to do a select?

James Rich

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