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Bruce, Thanks for the reply. You assumption about the 3 file join is correct, and your statement is pretty much what i'm doing. maybe this makes some difference. in your statement you used = on the acctstat and sostat. where the sql statement needs to be excluding those values. BAH, never mind. it makes perfect sense why it doesn't work i thought i could based on the 6 values in my orignal query load those possible combinations and get what i need. but what i really want to do is exclude any records that have sostat of 'Y' or 'C' and any records that have acctstat of 'AC' or 'PN' but have a sotype of PEDLV or PDLV. i guess another approach is in order here. -----Original Message----- From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. [mailto:rbruceh@attglobal.net] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:35 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: another can this be done with sql ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smith, Mike" <Mike_Smith@RGCResources.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: another can this be done with sql > select * from SOFILE,ACCTFILE where soact = acctact and sostat not in ('Y', > 'C') and acctstat not in ('AC', 'PN') and sotype in('PEDLV', 'PDLV') > this works fine. > > but i've been tasked with trying to make it more flexible. ie status codes > change etc. So i created a file that has the possible combinations of > Sostat, acctstat, and sotype(maybe i should have 3 files) ie Y,AC,PEDLV > Y,PN,PEDLV > can i do this the way i've set this up, if so how? Ok, I have to assume some things about your process: >From your note, you said "possible combinations" so I have to assume that you are completing a three file join now, not trying to implement the "not in (" selections. so, it should work with the following form: select * from sofile s join acctfile on soact = acctact a join codefile c on s.sostat = c.stat and a.acctstat = c.acctstat and s.sotype = c.sotype That last statement says "select records based on the codes all matching some combination in the third file". As for using three separate files in place of the third, the join would not work the same. Three separate files would have the effect of "oring" the join logic, not "anding" it. =========================================================== R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer "Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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