Re: Embedded SQL issue.

Thanks for the suggestion, Alan. I tried and it failed with the same reason.
I tried to use the 'cast' also and that failed too. Will keep trying a few
more options.

cheers,
-Jake.


On 4/2/07, Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

You can only concatenate ("||") character fields. The two fields are both
numeric.
Try the following (even though it looks NOT like what I described)
select dec(customer_month) || '-' || dec(customer_day) as "Date" from
iso.customer;



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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/02/2007 11:50:25 AM:

> Hello Guru's,
> I am trying to execute a SQL statement in my RPG program but I am
getting
> this error. I was wondering if anybody ran into this before.
>
> SQL0440N  No authorized routine named "||" of type "FUNCTION" having
> compatible arguments was found.
>
>
> my SQL statement is as follows.
> select customer_month || '-' || customer_day as "Date" from iso.customer
;
>
> The data types of both customer_month and customer_day are decimal(2).
>
> I did a search on SQL0440N and it turned up as a bug. If so, has it been
> fixed and I just need a 'patch' maybe?
>
> Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> cheers,
>
> -Jake.
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