Re: SQL Select Statement in a Stored Procedure Question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: SQL Select Statement in a Stored Procedure Question
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:09:49 -0500
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Perhaps you don't want a store procedure.  Instead, you want a UDF or User 
Defined Function
Then his select statement would look like,
select itemnum as ItemNum,
MyUDF(itemnum) as ItemDescription
from db2table
I've even written UDF's in RPG, but they could be done using straight SQL.
http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/185.html

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/db2/rbafzmstcfsc.htm#cfsc

Rob Berendt

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