Re: Dynamically creating a view

I second the idea of a UDTF...

You can actually base a view off a UDTF..

IBM's done so in a number of places, message_queue_info for example.

It's been a while since I look into it, but you can easily retrieve the SQL
for both the view and UDTF and see what they are doing.

Charles

On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Can you create a UDTF instead and make your inputs the parameters?



On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM Bill and Lisa Howie <
blhowie66@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello all,

I have a situation where we have a view that I set up using the SQL

script

editor in ACS that we want to incorporate into a program and give it
dynamic parameters. This is a report that we run monthly, so we have a
"from period" and a "to period" that need to change each month when it's
run. I've tried embedding it in an RPG program, complete with the DROP

and

CREATE statements for the view. I keep running up against a wall trying

to

add in the parameters for the periods, though. The SQL pre-compiler
doesn't seem to like it when I try to use the fields with the colon

before

them, as in :FROMPERIOD and :TOPERIOD, and it also doesn't like it when I
don't have the colons in there. I've tried defining the periods in a
database file and also as work fields within the program. When I don't
have the colons, the program runs, but gives an error that it doesn't

find

the period fields.

At this point I'm falling back to regroup and wondering if I'm setting
this up the right way. Would it be better/more elegant to set up an SQL
script in a source file and use RUNSQLSTM to do it? Or is there a third,
better option that I'm not thinking of? All input would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!

Bill

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