Question

I am trying to execute a stored procedured from a linked database in MS SQL 2005. The linked database is a db2 database on a iseries server. I am using the iSeries IBMDASQL service provider. I am able to query the stored procedure without problems using a simple vbscript and ado. When I try to execute the same stored procedure in query analyzer on the SQL Server, I never see any results. Query analyzer always show ‘command executed’ and when I execute the select * on the temp table, no values appear. What am I doing wrong????? Thanks!

–code from query analyzer below–

DECLARE @emailToAddress         char(50) DECLARE @emailFromAddress       char(50)  set @emailToAddress = '[e-mail]' set @emailFromAddress = '[e-mail]'  If Object_ID('tempdb..#tmpResultTbl') Is Not Null     Drop Table #tmpResultTbl  Create Table #tmpResultTbl ( OUTPGMID Char(150))  --SET FMTONLY Off Set NoCount On Insert Into #tmpResultTbl  EXEC ('CALL abicqual.VP_GETCCEPGMID(?, ?) ', @emailToAddress, @emailFromAddress) AT MAM400   Select * From #tmpResultTbl 

UPDATED: Here is the updated code to use openquery… still no luck 🙁

DECLARE @TSQL varchar(8000) DECLARE @emailToAddress varchar(50) DECLARE @emailFromAddress varchar(50) SET @emailToAddress = ‘[e-mail]’ SET @emailFromAddress = ‘[e-mail]’ SET @TSQL = ‘SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(MAM400,”CALL abicqual.VP_GETCCEPGMID(””’ + @emailToAddress + ””’, ””’ + @emailFromAddress + ””” + ‘)”’ + ‘)’ Print @TSQL EXEC (@TSQL)

–output below– SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(MAM400,’CALL abicqual.VP_GETCCEPGMID(”[e-mail]”, ”[e-mail]”)’) Msg 7357, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot process the object ‘CALL abicqual.VP_GETCCEPGMID(‘[e-mail]’, ‘[e-mail]’)’. The OLE DB provider ‘IBMDASQL’ for linked server ‘MAM400’ indicates that either the object has no columns or the current user does not have permissions on that object.

Answer 1

Turns out that there are a number of issues with the IBMDASQL provider that I was using. Believe it or not it is faster and more reliable to use the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers. After creating a new linked server with this provider, all of my earlier sql attempts worked properly. Cheers!