DA Morgan wrote:
>> Anyway there are countless differences between Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
>> in packages (and they drive me nuts on a daily basis).
> Or would if you had Oracle installed eh. <g>
Let the record show that I do not have Oracle installed.
There was an oh so short episode of misguidance.
I have been shown back to the true path long ago.

Hence, you (or anyone else) are most welcome to test DB2 Viper 2 beta
and point out my fallings caused by said lack of blessed state.

e.g. is it true that BITAND really returns wrong results for NUMBERs
bigger than max bigint?

Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab