RE: help with an SQL to fix MAPICS file

[Teresa Biby <TBiby@xxxxxxx>]

Did you add exclusions in where clause for when cuscl is NOT null?  
When searching for the records that are null--are you saying eq to ' '?  Not
eq to null?  
Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: michael.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:michael.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 12:12 PM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: help with an SQL to fix MAPICS file

Hopefully someone on the MAPICS group knows SQL enough to help me debug my 
problem:

I am having someone update Customer Class fields in our LIVE environment 
to get the data correct.  We do not have the luxury of refreshing the test 
environment frequently.   I prefer not to copy the MBBFREP from the live 
environment (ZZ) to the test environment (ZD).   What I want to do is 
simply update MBBFREP (customer master) in the test environment with the 
value of the CUSCL field from the live environment, ignoring all other 
fields and handling the possible differences between the files (customers 
added or deleted in live or in test since the last refresh). 

HERE'S THE SQL I'm trying to use:

update amflibd/mbbfrep a set a.cuscl= 
 (select b.cuscl from  amflibz/mbbfrep b where a.comno=b.comno and 
a.cusno=b.cusno and 
b.comno=11) 

HERE'S THE ERROR I'm getting:

Null values not allowed in column or variable CUSCL.


I've tried adding exclusions in my where clause for when the CUSCL IS 
NULL, etc., but nothing I'm doing is working.  There are some records in 
ZZ that have blank in the customer class field, but when I SQL to find 
those with NULL values, I get nothing -- as in no records seem to contain 
NULL.   Am I doing somthing in my subquery that would cause the result 
rows to be empty?   Everything I've tried indicates there should be 
results.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.


Michael G. Ellis
Information Systems International, Inc.
A Global ERP Consulting Firm
815-398-1670 x23
 
Choose ISI consultants to ensure consistently top quality implementation 
services at all levels of your organization.

"We should be known by what we belong to - not by what belongs to us." -- 
Unknown
_______________________________________________
This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/mapics-l
or email: MAPICS-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l.