Re: how to create variable in sql procedure?

As guessed at already, CREATE VARIABLE is not allowed as a static type of
statement in a routine body/compound statement. If you look at the
SQL-procedure-statement documentation in Chapter 8 of the SQL Reference,
you will see that it is not listed.

This is very easy to work around by using an EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement:

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE VARIABLE qgpl.GV_DEPTNO char(20) default
''Unassigned''';

Trying to pretty this up just to concentrate.

Error is on the CREATE VARIABLE statement.
SQL0104 30 11 Position 9 Token VARIABLE was not valid. Valid
tokens: VIEW ALIAS TABLE SCHEMA.

CREATE VARIABLE qgpl.GV_DEPTNO char(20) default 'Unassigned';

One thing I noticed was that CREATE (variable, view, alias, table,

schema)

all say:
Invocation
This statement can be embedded in an application program or issued
interactively. It is an executable statement that can be dynamically
prepared.

So, unless this is for a real early version of the OS, or one before some

fix was added to give us CREATE VARIABLE, I don't know.

Sue Romano
Db2 for IBM i Development