Stored Procedures

Although Stored Procedures are starting to become established in some application architectures, it is still considered by many as something either to new or not valuable.
This session will provides a walk through into the world of the DB2 stored procedures.
We will focus on

The environment setup needed to run Stored Procedures
The performance aspects. (When to use them and when to avoid them)
The 'political' issues from a DBA point of view?
Some interesting IBM supplied stored procedures.