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  3. June 2003

SQL date conversion

Hi Everyone,

For all you SQL experts, is there a simpler way to compare an IBM 7-digit
date (cyymmdd) to a date type variable in SQL?  Currently I have this:

SELECT date, date7
 FROM testlib/test
 WHERE
 substr(char(date),1,4) concat
 substr(char(date),6,2) concat
 substr(char(date),9,2) =
 char(date7+19000000)

date7 is a numeric 7.0 cyymmdd
date us a date field
and the assumed date format is *ISO.

tia,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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