RE: EXCSQLSTM command: Keyword ORDER not expected. Valid tokens: ) UNIONEXCEPT.

Peter,

No need to GROUP BY, as you are not using any functions that would require it....
ORDER BY can be specified by ordinal value (column number)...
If you are trying to remove duplicate rows, insert DISTINCT right after the SELECT opcode.


EXCSQLSTM SQLSTM('INSERT INTO WHCON/DUPITMWRK +
(SELECT ''TIM'' as LOC, ''MG'' as ENV, +
CASE +
WHEN SUBSTR(ITNBR,1,1) = ''T'' THEN ITNBR +
WHEN SUBSTR(ITNBR,1,1) <> ''T'' AND SUBSTR(ITNBR,15,1) = '' '' +
THEN ''T''||SUBSTR(ITNBR,1,14) +
WHEN SUBSTR(ITNBR,15,1) <> '' '' THEN ITNBR +
END as ITEM +
FROM ITMRVA WHERE SUBSTR(STID,1,1) = ''T'' +

ORDER BY 3 +
)')

hth,
Eric


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Vidal
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:59 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: EXCSQLSTM command: Keyword ORDER not expected. Valid tokens: )
UNIONEXCEPT.


This is a multipart message in MIME format.d to execute SQL stuff within CL's. I am
developing one today, as follows.

EXCSQLSTM SQLSTM('INSERT INTO WHCON/DUPITMWRK +
(SELECT +
''TIM'' AS LOC, +
''MG'' AS ENV, +
CASE +
WHEN SUBSTR(ITNBR,1,1) = ''T'' THEN ITNBR +
WHEN SUBSTR(ITNBR,1,1) <> ''T'' AND SUBSTR(ITNBR,15,1) = '' '' +
THEN ''T''||SUBSTR(ITNBR,1,14) +
WHEN SUBSTR(ITNBR,15,1) <> '' '' THEN ITNBR +
END AS ITEM +
FROM ITMRVA WHERE SUBSTR(STID,1,1) = ''T'' +
GROUP BY ITNBR ORDER BY ITNBR)')

However, I am having this error:
Keyword ORDER not expected. Valid tokens: ) UNION EXCEPT.

I a trivial error but I can't see the issue. If I remove the GROUP BY
.... ORDER BY .... parts, it works.

Thanks in advance,


PETER VIDAL
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