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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2025

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Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems.

We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a remote IBM i database via SQL Connect statement. When connecting and executing SQL statements via the embedded SQL program the system creates automatically the SQL package on the remote system with library and object name which was specified at compile time in command CRTSQLCBLI and parameter SQLPKG.

At compile time we use the default values RDB(*LOCAL) and SQLPKG(*OBJLIB/*OBJ) because at this point we don't know the target system and also not the target sql package library/object name of our customers systems.

Because we have no source code on our production system we are not able to compile the embedded SQL program again to set the target library and name for the SQL package.

Therefore we need a function to change the target SQL package location on a embedded SQL program (or module within an ILE program) without recompile.

Alternatively we need an option to access the remote system via embedded SQL without the need of an SQL package like it is already an option when using ODBC access.

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