Re: mdy date in query

Here is a copy/paste of one of my queries.  This one is taking a character
6 byte date field in YYMMDD and converting it to a date type field.  In
order for it to work your field that you use the DATE expression on must be
in whatever your job date format is, complete with separators.  If your
original field is numeric then you must use the DIGITS expression to
convert it to a character field first.  If you press the help key while in
the Define Result Fields display, there are some good explanations and
examples if you search through it long enough.

 Field               Expression
 DATE8          substr(sfdat,3,2) || '/' ||
                          substr(sfdat,5,2) || '/' ||
                          substr(sfdat,1,2)

 SPLDATE     date(date8)


Valene M. Williamson
IBM Certified Specialist
vwilliamson@glazers.com
972-448-8018

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