Re: Stored Procedure: Default Values For Parameters

Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't considered the overloading option.
However, in this case it won't work. I am building some custom apps against
ERP tables that are sometimes 100+ columns wide. I had planned on building
Insert/Update procedures for each table with default values for every column
so that when I was ready to insert records, I could only pass relevant
columns within the calling stored procedure instead of replicating the same
verbose INSERT INTO TABLE (columns list 100+ wide) VALUES (100+ wide)
statement in multiple procedures where most of the columns would not be
relevant.

In this case, 100+ procedures per table wouldn't even work because I would
have combinations as well (columns 0, 7, 13, 18, 21).

Anyway, thanks again.

RH


"Ryan Hunt" <ryan.hunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Is there a way to declare default values for paramters in a procedures in
DB2/400?

I've looked high and low and I'm getting the impression there's not.

Other

platforms will let you do something like:

CREATE PROCEDURE MyProc(
IN Param1 char(1)=' ',
IN Param2 money = 0,
IN Param3 varchar(50) = null)
etc.

CALL MyProc (Param1='Y');

Param1 will equal 'Y'. Param2 and Param3 are available within the

procedure

as values 0 and NULL respectively. Does that situation exist in DB2/400?

Thanks

Ryan



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