2nd try: embedded newlines in SQL in Java/JDBC v8 changed things?

[allenj]

Maybe I'm just being dense, but this seems like a legitimate question.
Here's my 2nd try. Can someone please comment? Blair? Serge?
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Under DB2 v7, while writing JDBC/Java/SQL code to query the database,
I could embed newlines in my SQL, ala:

ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select blah \n"
+"from blahblah") ;
This worked fine.

However, if I try this under DB2 v8, I get:

SQL Error Code -7, SQL State 42601, The character "
" following "select blah " is not valid.

Why is this?

And before anyone asks: the reason I embed newlines in SQL is so that
the offending SQL printed in errors/exceptions is across multiple
lines and is easier to read.

And along the same lines: many of my developers, while writing
JDBC/Java/SQL code to query the database (see above), would append a
semi-colon to the end of SQL statements. In DB2 v7 this worked fine.
Under v8 you get:
SQL Error Code -104, SQL State 42601, An unexpected token ""
was found following "". Expected tokens may include: "lah from
blah". Why?

TIA

Allen