Re: Creating stored procedure that uses CONNECT TO myserver USER myuser USING password fails

[Mark Murphy <jmarkmurphy@xxxxxxxxx>]

The manual also says "CONNECT is not allowed in a trigger or function."

I know you said stored procedure, but maybe the same restriction exists?
Just grasping at straws here.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 9:55 AM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've got an SQL stored procedure I'm trying to create...
>
> CONNECT TO MYSERVER USER MYUSER USING mypass;
>
> I want mypass to be a variable, however I can't get it to work.
>
> I've tried defining mypass as
> - a local variable to in the stored proc
> - a global variable outside the SP
> - a parm to the stored proc.
>
> In all cases, the ILE C compile fails
> --local
> EXEC SQL CONNECT TO MYSERVER USER MYUSER USING  :SQLP_L2.MYPASS ;
> * SQL0104 Position 48 Token : was not valid. Valid tokens:
> <IDENTIFIER>.
> --parm
> EXEC SQL CONNECT TO MYSERVER USER MYUSER USING  :NMYPROC.MYPASS ;
> * SQL0104 Position 48 Token : was not valid. Valid tokens:
> <IDENTIFIER>.
> --global
> EXEC SQL CONNECT TO MYSERVER USER MYUSER USING MYPASS ;
> * SQL0104 Position 48 Token MYPASS was not valid. Valid tokens:
> :.
>
> According to the doc, CONNECT TO is an executable statement...and it can't
> be dynmaically prepared...
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
> Charles
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