RE: How to chase down SQL0181 - Value in date, time, or timestamp string not valid.

Try substituting CHAR for DIGITS.  That should take care of any leading zeros.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Bale
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 3:40 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: How to chase down SQL0181 - Value in date, time,or
timestamp string not valid.


All right, starting to get somewhere.  Here is my latest test:

SELECT all  TrnDt,
                SUBSTR(DIGITS((TRNDT+19000000)),1,4)
        ||'-'|| SUBSTR(DIGITS((TRNDT+19000000)),5,2)
        ||'-'|| SUBSTR(DIGITS((TRNDT+19000000)),7,2)
         as TranDate
  FROM    DJBTEST03/ARHSTS$DB

The results:

Position to line  . . .
....+....1....+....2.
    TRNDT  TRANDATE
104/06/15  0200-40-61
104/06/30  0200-40-63
104/06/21  0200-40-62
********  End of data  ************

TRNDT is defined as 7 digits, 0 decimal, packed.

WHAT is going on here?  Is the DIGITS function coming up with a 9-digit
number from the (TRNDT+19000000) result?  Can I force the intermediate (?)
result to be 8 digits?

Can almost feel a solution...

db

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