RE: SQL Problem Coverting from Numeric YYYYMMDD to a Date Format

Or if you don't want to do any conversions, just subtract 10000 from
your end date and you'll have your beginning date.



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|Subject: Re: SQL Problem Coverting from Numeric YYYYMMDD to a Date
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|If it's in YYYYMMDD format, no need to convert to date.
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|Just
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|V5R3
|RangeBegin = %Dec(%Date(YYYYMMDD:*ISO) - %Years(1):*ISO);
|RangeEnd = YYYYMMDD;
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|Select * from file
|where YYYYMMDD between (:RangeBegin and :RangeEnd)
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|or something similar to that.
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|Michael Schutte
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|Advice given may not be completely accurate, I depend on you to
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|what I type.
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|             PM                        YYYYMMDD to a Date Format
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|I am trying to create a view that automatically displays only 1 year's
|worth
|of data. The problem is that the dates are in a numeric YYYYMMDD
format.
|What is the easiest why to convert to a date format?
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|This is what I am trying now and doesn't work.:
|CAST(CONCAT(CONCAT(SUBSTRING(CAST(ncmplntdt as char),1,4), '-'),
|CONCAT(CONCAT(SUBSTRING(CAST(ncmplntdt as char),5,2), '-'),
|SUBSTRING(CAST(ncmplntdt as char),7,2))) AS DATE) as ncmplntdt
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|The always helpful IBM error is "Argument 1 of function *N not valid."
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|I am sure there has to be an easier way. We are on V5R3.
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