No, you can't but you can write a "table user defined function" which will allow DB2 to present this data as a DB2 table. This approach requires a program to be written but saves the trouble of loading data into a table and keeping it up to date. Hope this helps
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:58:26 -0600, David Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have a dataset that has a single (integer) key followed by a big block of >binary data. We want access to this data via a DB/2 enabled program, using a >SELECT statement. > > > >My question is this: Do we need to actually CREATE TABLE and load our data >into the DB/2 internal formats, or can we just ask DB/2 to read the KSDS >directly as a "two-field table"? (IMS allows this, for example.) > > > >Thanks! > > > > > >David Logan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
