Re: does any release allow "create table as" with a host variable? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: does any release allow "create table as" with a host variable?
From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:50:08 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:39 PM, CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12 Dec 2012 09:09, Steve Richter wrote:

I really do not like it when IBM relies on a standard to withhold
a needed feature.

But what is probably one of the most non-standard SQL also documents
that "A host variable must not be: ... used in data definition (DDL)
statements such as ALTER and CREATE" so I do not think IBM is an outlier
in its similar prohibition.

another place where the host variable restriction is a problem is when
creating an alias in order to access a member of a file. The
following code does not work:

exec sql
create alias qtemp/utl0040al for
qusrsys/qatmhinstc(:MBRNAME) ;

instead you have to prepare and execute.

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