RE: SQL Statement failing in COBOL program

Jim,

The system's telling you the problem. I'm guessing you've got a data record somewhere with a bad
value in BRQDVA. Look for a prior message in the job log that tells you which record.

Or add some code in your program to tell you the last record you got successfully.

STRSQL may be working because it hadn't hit the bad record yet, unless you've paged through all the
records.

HTH,
Charles

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:29 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SQL Statement failing in COBOL program

I asked this in the WDSc list, but none of the responses
helped me find the problem. I have the following statement;

Exec SQL
Declare LTRC1 cursor for
with t1 as (Select distinct lnbss, lnbond
from slsfiles/sllnrep
WHERE lnlsts < "P90" )
select
Distinct ZIP_CODE,
PLUS_FOUR,
CAR_RTE_CD,
CAR_RTE_CD,
PLUS_SIX,
PAGE_INFO,
ADDR_LINE1,
ADDR_LINE2,
ADDR_LINE3,
ADDR_LINE4,
BORR_NAME,
BORR_SSN,
RTN_CODES,
LNBOND
from BCTEST/BCSRREP,
SLSFILES/SLBRREP Join T1 on BrBSS = LNBSS
WHERE Dec(BORR_SSN,9,0) = Dec(BRQDVA *100,9,0)
Order by LnBond, Zip_Code
END-EXEC

The select statement works in STRSQL and selects the records
I want to process. When I run it in the program, the open
cursor statement completes normally, but the fetch gets me a
SQLSTATE of 22018 with a SQLCODE of -420.
The code book says;

"The character value for the CAST, DECIMAL, FLOAT, or INTEGER
scalar function is invalid."

Every column selected is alpha except the LNBOND which is a
packed decimal 3 long in the file. I have the receiving
field for the LNBOND field set as a Signed Packed Decimal 3
long. BRQDVA in the "WHERE" clause is a number in
9,999,999.99 format, and so to compare with the account
number (not really SSN, but was at one time) I have to move
decimal to the right like 999,999,999. The BORR_SSN is
actually a number, just stored as character.

This statement happens to be in ILE COBOL SQL, but the
question is more SQL based then program based. Also I know
that in this example, taken from the program the constant
'P90' has double quotes, required by COBOL, and not single as
required by STRSQL.

I'm not sure what I am being told by the message.

Any thoughts/Help?

Thanks!

Jim
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