Title: SQL and Shell / perl?

Howdy:

Sorry if this seems silly or lame. 

I want to automate loading ixf files into my
database.  I'm not sure if it's do-able.

For example, I want to say in a shell (or perl)
script:

for I in  `ls -1 /this/directory/*ixf`
        do
        db2 -tf make.script
done

But I'm not sure if I can create a make script
that looks at a list of *ixf files and
implements something like:

db2> import from /this/directory/clients.ixf of ixf replace_create into clients

I hope I'm describing this correctly.  I want to automate that part
taken from a list of IXF files I get from another place and time.  So
the end results would be something like:

for I in `ls -1 /this/directory/*ixf`
        do
        connect to database user joe using joespassword
        import from $i of ixf replace_create into `$i | cut -d. -f1`
        terminate
done
mail $address < /tmp/finish_results.txt


In my mind, this seems straight forward, but I don't know
enough about SQL to say whether or not I can add external
commands to pass an argument.

Suggestions?

-X

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