Syntax check your SQL statements in a source member

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SQL is a wonderful tool, but a typo can burn us all. To ensure you have correctly typed SQL source statements you want to process via the RUNSQLTM command, use the RUNSQLSTM parameter PROCESS(*SYN) to first syntax check your statements. Just prompt the command and enter your parameters. If there are errors, you'll receive a message SQL9010. A report is also generated indicating the individual statement errors.

RUNSQLSTM SRCFILE(LIB/SOURCE) SRCMBR(MYSQLSRC) COMMIT(*NONE) PROCESS(*SYN)

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• A similar facility is available in interactive SQL. Also, *VLD is more useful than *SYN.— Nick Hobson