Serge Rielau wrote:

> Knut Stolze wrote:
>> p.s: One question that comes up with that functionality immediately is
>> that all procedures/routines are executed on the database server and not
>> the
>> client. Thus, if you write to a flat file, you write it on the database
>> server - which may or may not be acceptable in your environment.
> Judy claims an Oracle background.., so yes, that will be acceptable to
> her ;-)

That explains it, I guess. Doing something external to the database on the
database server is something that is rarely acceptable to me. Hence, my
careful wording... ;-)

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Knut Stolze
DB2 z/OS Utilities Development
IBM Germany