Optional: Specify the owner of the view. The creator of the view is assumed if nothing is typed. Available only when creating a view.

Opens a window that lists user IDs to search for a valid owner. Available only when creating a view.

Type a unique name for your view. Available only when creating a view.

Modify the contents to specify the view statement. Available only when creating a view.

Resets the text box to its initial state. Available only when creating a view.

Erases the contents of the text box. Available only when creating a view.

Opens a window to help you build a SELECT statement. A SELECT statement is needed in the AS clause when you create a view. Available only when creating a view.

Specifies no check option parameters.

Specifies a cascaded check option. Meaningful for views defined on views. Update and insert operations on a view must satisfy the search conditions of the view and all underlying views, regardless of whether the underlying views were defined with a check option. Every view that can be updated, that is directly or indirectly defined on the view inherits those search conditions as a constraint on insert or update operations.

Specifies a local form of the check option which lets you update or insert rows that do not conform to the search condition of the view.

Optional: Type a 1 to 30-character, including embedded blanks. Type an SQL character string constant of up to 30 bytes in length for the label for the alias. The label is placed into the LABEL column of the SYSIBM.SYSTABLES catalog table in the row that describes the view.

Optional: Type comments you want to include with the view. This adds a COMMENT ON statement which adds comments in the description of the view in the REMARKS column of the catalog table for the row that describes the view. The maximum number of characters is 254.

Submits the data in the window and closes the window.

Displays the SQL statements that are generated by your choices in this notebook.

Cancels any unsaved changes and closes the notebook or window.