Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

Chapter 8 – Developing SQL stored procedures 239
chapters. See Chapter 1 to learn how to download and create the GSDB database, and
Chapter 2 to learn how to connect to that database.
Data Studio provides helpful templates, editors and views to productively create, deploy,
run, view, edit, and debug stored procedures. The overview of the steps to develop a
stored procedure in Data Studio is shown in Figure 8.2.
Figure 8.2- Steps to develop a stored procedure
To develop a stored procedure:
1. First, create the stored procedure. With Data Studio, you can create template-based
stored procedures, including the required input and output variables, and SQL
statements. The stored procedure’s source code is saved in your project workspace.
The stored procedure is stored in the data design project in which you created it, and
you can open it from the Stored Procedures folder in the Data Project Explorer.
2. Next, deploy the stored procedure. When you deploy a stored procedure, Data Studio
submits theCREATE PROCEDURE statement to the DB2 database server, which
compiles it. If it is successfully deployed on the database server, you can locate it in
the database when you drill down through the structures in the Data Source Explorer.
3. Next, run the stored procedure so that you can test it by providing data for input
variables.