Re: SQL error causes all batch jobs to fail

[wim_vandepoel@xxxxxxx]

Hi David,

This works on our system... 

SELECT DIGITS(myfield) ||       '_'     ||      DIGITS(myotherfield) FROM 
mytable 
or
SELECT DIGITS(myfield) concat   '_'     concat  DIGITS(myotherfield) FROM 
mytable 

Rest Begards
Wim



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SQL error causes all batch jobs to fail






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.