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I see.
You're probably then creating a table on the fly, i.e.
CREATE TABLE QTEMP/T1 (SELECT f1, 'ORDER NUMBER:' CONCAT SUBSTR(f2,1,5), f3
FROM myDDSfile WHERE f1 = 'Hamburg') WITH DATA
Substring would normally create a CHAR field, but since I'm concatenating it
with a literal, which DB2 by default casts to a VARCHAR, substring then
defaults to VARCHAR as well, as does the final result of the concatenation.
Like I said earlier, just cast that whole expression to CHAR.
Elvis
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Subject: RE: building new fields using substr in sql
Elvis,
sorry for that confusion,
whole field = DDS name of existing field without
any hacking being done to it
built = the new field I created from pieces of other DDS fields
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