RE: SQL - Cast Numeric to Date

This works by creating an *ISO formatted date (2005-12-05):

select date(substr(char(20051205),1,4) concat '-' 
       concat substr(char(20051205),5,2) concat '-' 
       concat substr(char(20051205),7,2)) 
from sysibm/sysdummy1 

Per the SQL reference, the only numeric conversions are allowed as the
number of days since 1/1/0001.

HTH,
Loyd

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
E/TS Water Valley
662-473-5713

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Subject: SQL - Cast Numeric to Date

I have an 8.0 field in a file. I want to do something like this:

Select Date(Num_Field) as Mydate...

I can see how to do it with a CAST on a character field - what do I need
to do for a numeric field in CCYYMMDD format? It's not really ISO...at
least I can't see how to specify no seperators.

Thanks...