Re: SQLRPG/400 Day of Week ?

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, SET is valid for host variables. Hey, cool. How about using the SQL 
special register CURRENT DATE or CURRENT_DATE instead of :TODAY?

At 19:30 11/28/2000, I wrote:
>At 14:17 11/28/2000, Al Mac wrote:
>>Does SQL's SET DayofWeek Scalar Function work in RPG/400?
>>If so, what am I doing wrong?
>>C MOVEL *DATE TODAY 8.0
>>& I also defined WKDAY as 1.0
>>
>>C/EXEC SQL
>>C+ SET :WKDAY = DayOfWeek(:TODAY)
>>C/END-EXEC
>>
>>Error message from SEU
>>Token : was not valid.  Valid Tokens: OPTION RESULT CONNECTION TRANSACTION
>
>SET isn't valid for a host variable. Try using a VALUES INTO statement. 
>I've never used it, but the documentation says "The VALUES INTO statement 
>produces a result table consisting of at most one row and assigns the 
>values in that row to host variables." You'd need an expression something like:
>
>   C/EXEC SQL VALUES DayOfWeek(:TODAY) INTO :WKDAY
>   C/END-EXEC
>
>hth
>Pete
>Pete Hall
>pbhall@execpc.com
>http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
>
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