Re: STRQMQRY with variables

NDATE needs to be in uppercase in the SQL statement, or put apostrophes
around the lowercase name in STRQMQRY

At 11:14 AM 4/23/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I am trying to process an SQL state using the STRQMQRY command and passing
>variables.  I'm want to update the field newdat with the value of the
>variable &ndate where the variable &empno  equals the field empno in file
>cnvdate.
>The message I keep getting is.
>Message . . . . :   Type a value for variable "ndate" and press Enter.
>
>
>
>Cause . . . . . :   You want Query Management to use variable "ndate", but
>
>that variable does not exist in the global variable pool.
>Recovery  . . . :   Type a value for "ndate" and press Enter.  The variable
>
>will be created with the value typed and will exist until the Query
>Management RUN QUERY command completes.  The special value *BLANK can be
>typed if you want the value for variable "ndate" to be a single blank. The
>special value *NONE can be typed if you want variable "ndate" to have no
>value.  If you press Enter without typing a value, or you press F3 (Exit) or
>F12 (Cancel), the RUN QUERY command will be ended.
>
>Can anyone tell me what I have wrong with the code below?
>
>Thanks
>
>CL Code:
>**  ...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+...
>         *************** Beginning of data
>***********************************
>.00                 PGM
>.00                 DCL        VAR(&NDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8)
>.00                 DCLF       FILE(BMEADE/WORKDATE)
>.00                 READ:       RCVF
>
>.00                 MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0864) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(DONE))
>.00                 CVTDAT     DATE(&NEW) TOVAR(&NDATE) FROMFMT(*JUL) +
>.00                           TOFMT(*YYMD) TOSEP(*NONE)
>.00
>.00                 STRQMQRY   QMQRY(BMEADE/CNVDATE) SETVAR((NDATE  &NDATE)
>EMPNO &EMPNO))
>.00
>.00                    GOTO READ
>
>.00  DONE:       ENDPGM
>         ****************** End of data
>**************************************
>SQL :
>*************** Beginning of data **********
>update bmeade/cnvdate set newdat=&ndate where empno = &empno
>****************** End of data *************
>
>Bernie
>
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