RE: DATE Datatype in SQL View

Let's say you have your alpha date in the following format:

02-25-2007

and your current job is set to *MDY with date separator being '/', something
like this would work:

CREATE VIEW mylib/myview AS 
  (SELECT DATE(REPLACE(myfield,'-','/')) AS myDateField FROM mylib/myfile)

or if you don't have access to REPLACE function on the version of OS you're
running:

CREATE VIEW mylib/myview AS
  (SELECT DATE(SUBSTR(myfield,1,2) || '/' || SUBSTR(myfield,4,2) || '/'
SUBSTR(myfield,7,4)) AS myDateField FROM mylib/myfile)

That aside, perhaps your alpha format resembles *ISO (YYYY-MM-DD). In that
case, simply casting to DATE may work, i.e.:

CREATE VIW mylib/myview AS
  (SELECT DATE(myfield) AS myDateField FROM mylib/myfile)

HTH

Elvis

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On Behalf Of Ron Adams
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: DATE Datatype in SQL View

Currently, it is Alpha 10.

Funny, I was just looking thru some Centerfield's newsletters and the
examples you had in there.



On 2/24/07, Elvis Budimlic <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's your field's current format?

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