mmmm - just this week one of my guys tested a UDF (which I'd never heard of) to make a customers life (supposedly) easier. Service unit consumption was *in excess* of an order of magnitude higher. The idea was quickly abandoned.
Shane ... (caveat - I can't even spell DB2) Quoting Mohammad Khan: > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

