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Well that makes sense. I changed it to

DATE(SUBSTR(CHAR(SHIP_DATE),7,2) CONCAT '/' CONCAT
SUBSTR(CHAR(SHIP_DATE),9,2) CONCAT '/' CONCAT
SUBSTR(CHAR(SHIP_DATE),5,2)) AS DATE_SHIPPED


And I got some output.

Thanks

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SQL Date Formatting Issue

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Fred Horvat <horvat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Another file I am working with has a date field that is defined as variable
V50 as bbYYYYMMDD. The following code gives me blank output.

DATE(SUBSTR(DIGITS(SHIP_DATE),7,2) CONCAT '/' CONCAT
SUBSTR(DIGITS(SHIP_DATE),9,2) CONCAT '/' CONCAT
SUBSTR(DIGITS(SHIP_DATE),5,2)) AS DATE_SHIPPED



DIGITS built-in function converts number to character. But you are feeding
it a character column.

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