Glenn,
The real issue here is that this is a particularly poor naming convention. But it sounds as if that isn't something you control.
You can manually create a read-only RV as follows:
create sql view myview remote connection myconn as SELECT...FROM...WHERE
HTH
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
