RE: how to filter out spaces in fields defined as packed numeric

Joel,

I had to find and fix some data like this. I used the following to find the rows that had hex'40' in a particular field.

Select * from datafile where substr(trim(hex(orderqty)),1,2) = '40'

In my example, srcdat is defined as signed, but the logic should still work.

Good Luck.

Steve Needles
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:34 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SQL: how to filter out spaces in fields defined as packed numeric

I have a file with hex '40' spaces in a field OrderQty defined to DDS as pack numeric.

I am using SQL to read the file and SQL croaks when it reads these nasty invalid records.

Is it possible to filter out these records in SQL?

For example something like:

SELECT * from Datafile where left(OrderQty,1) = *blanks


Here is the SQL error:
Data mapping error on member SQLTEMP1.
A data mapping error occurred on field OrderQty in


1 -- There is data in a decimal field that is not valid.

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