When you try to drop an overloaded function/procedure, DB2 will report a SQL0476N error code.
For example: if function MY_TOCHAR is overloaded with
CREATE FUNCTION MY_TOCHAR(P DATE) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) LANGUAGE SQL RETURN ...
CREATE FUNCTION MY_TOCHAR(P TIME) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) LANGUAGE SQL RETURN ...
And if you want to delete function using:
DROP FUNCTION MY_TOCHAR
You will get following error message:
DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it returned:
SQL0476N Reference to routine "<SCHEMA>.MY_TOCHAR" was made without a signature, but the routine is not unique in its schema. SQLSTATE=42725
Solution 1: Drop function with explicit signature, like
DROP FUNCTION MY_TOCHAR(DATE)
DROP FUNCTION MY_TOCHAR(TIME)
Solution 2: Drop function using specific-name
DROP SPECIFIC FUNCTION <specific-name>
The <specific-name> could be found from SYSIBM.SYSROUTINES:
db2 => SELECT NAME, SPECIFICNAME FROM SYSIBM.SYSROUTINES WHERE NAME = 'MY_TOCHAR'
NAME SPECIFICNAME
-------------------- ------------------------
MY_TOCHAR MY_D3MYTVWGULBL
MY_TOCHAR MY_TOCHAR
db2 => DROP SPECIFIC FUNCTION MY_TOCHAR
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully
db2 => DROP SPECIFIC FUNCTION MY_D3MYTVWGULBL
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully