Create a missing table in SQL ?

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to check for the existence of a table, and do something depending 
upon the result.

BEGIN ATOMIC
    DECLARE v_rc INT DEFAULT 0;
    SELECT COUNT(*) INTO v_rc 
        FROM SYSCAT.TABLES 
        WHERE TABNAME = 'NAMES' ;
    IF v_rc = 0 THEN
        CREATE TABLE NAMES........;
    ELSE
          DROP TABEL NAMES;
        CREATE TABLE NAMES........;
    END IF;
END

Using the interactive SQL, it gives weird errors about end of statement and 
such...

Anyone see what's wrong ?

Thanks,

--phil