RE: Error on update in SQL

["McCallion, Martin" <martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx>]

> In your specific case of populating a YYYYMMDD char from a date, the
> following will return "20020802":
>   substr(char(curdate(),ISO),1,4)||
>   substr(char(curdate(),ISO),6,2)||
>   substr(char(curdate(),ISO),9,2)

Thanks. Loyd, that's a much more elegant solution than the one I came up
with.

> The char() function returns "2002-08-02", from which the
> component parts,
> with leading zeroes that you expect, are extracted.
> The char() function also allows an optional variable to
> specify the format
> of the converted date field, much like factor 1 of the MOVE
> operation for
> dates.

I came across the optional variable in my reading yesterday, so I ought
to have come up with your solution, but there you go.

Your solution has the added advantage of behaving the same when run from
Ops Nav as when run from RUNSQLSTM.  But that's a rant for another day.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

Martin.

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