External Procedures, Triggers, and User-Defined Functions on IBM DB2 for i

Stored procedures

This chapter explains how you can take advantage of stored procedures when you develop a distributed application. Stored procedures provide a standard way to call an external procedure from within an application by using an SQL statement.

This chapter describes the following topics:

•Introduction

•Stored procedure types

•Registering stored procedures

•System catalog tables

•Procedure signature and procedure overloading

•Deleting ...