Re: calling sql procedure from interactive SQL session

On 29 Nov 2012 09:47, Lim Hock-Chai wrote:

Did encounter a strange behavior:

The statement below works fine in STRSQL. But if I put that
statement in a Source file and run it with RUNSQLSTM, it failed.
Weird. But no big deal. <<SNIP>>

create or replace variable pa1234.pinewEncPwd Binary(256) default 'TEST124 '

Simply stating that the request "failed" is not very descriptive :-( If there is a reason to expect that the function is supported, e.g. the /failure/ was *not* SQL0084 [although the documentation gives no indication that would be the case], then probably that is an indication that the /strange behavior/ should be reported as a probable defect.? Hopefully whatever the failure was, was not merely due to a missing semicolon, as required by the script processor [at least for lack of an EOF in its place].

IBM i 7.1 Information Center -> Database -> Reference -> SQL reference -> Statements
_i CREATE VARIABLE i_
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/db2/rbafzcvariable.htm
"The CREATE VARIABLE statement defines a global variable at the application server.

_Invocation_

This statement can be embedded in an application program or issued interactively. It is an executable statement that can be dynamically prepared.
...
"