Defining the linkage convention for an external stored procedure
A linkage convention specifies the rules for the parameter list that is passed by the program that calls the external stored procedure. For example, the convention can specify whether the calling program can pass null values for input parameters.
Procedure
To define the linkage convention for a stored procedure:
When you define the stored procedure with the CREATE PROCEDURE
statement, specify one of the following values for the PARAMETER STYLE
option:
- GENERAL
- GENERAL WITH NULLS
- SQL