SQL error causes all batch jobs to fail -- MIDRANGE-L

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Help!!

Just arrived to find that all our nightly jobs that used a particular application ended in error when they tried to execute some SQL instructions.

The program prepares a cursor from a request that is calculated, of this type :

SELECT DIGITS(myfield)!!'_'DIGITS(myotherfield) FROM mytable

Each program gave the same error during preparation of the SQL statement : Elément syntaxique ! n'est pas correct. Eléments possibles : + - AS
(hope the translation of that is obvious).

In an SQL greenscreen session, if I type the same with | instead of !, I get the same error.

Now we have rerun manually one of the smaller jobs that ended in error and it runs fine.

We can't see any changes that have been made to cause the error.

Could something in the system cause the job to interpret differently the SQL syntax at night ( submitted automatically ) to the one we just ran manually?

We have a load of jobs to rerun, and we don't know if they'll run OK tonight or not.

Anyone got any clues as to what might have happened?

Thanks.

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