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I need to create an output file with selected records from an input file,
but the records to select depend on a date range from a related file.  This
sounded to me like an ideal thing for SQL.

Looking up online how to do it, I found the SELECT INTO with examples of
creating an output table, so I thought I'd try it:

SELECT * INTO qtemp/ordtlhst FROM dbmstf/ordtlhst WHERE onrcu IN (SELECT
onrcu FROM dbmstf/orhdrhst WHERE shpdtiso >= '2006-03-13' AND shpdtiso <=
'2006-03-17')

That doesn't work, however, because the i5 is expecting a host variable, I
think, after the SELECT INTO.  Must be that different versions of SQL want
different things.

I found, in the archives, this way to do it:

CREATE TABLE qtemp/ordtlhst AS (Select * FROM dbmstf/ordtlhst WHERE onrcu IN
(SELECT onrcu FROM dbmstf/orhdrhst WHERE shpdtiso >= '2006-03-13' AND
shpdtiso <= '2006-03-17')) WITH DATA

That worked!  Id this the 'proper' SQL statement to do this?  I'm ultimately
going to be passing the dates in as parms.

Thanks!


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