Re: SQL error causes all batch jobs to fail -- MIDRANGE-L

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To add to Rob's explanation, there is a set of invariant characters between various code pages - and the vertical bar is not one of them, nor the dollar sign, as he said. We are told never to use the variant characters.

I googled "invariant character" and got the link at IBM for it - this will get you there - *http://tinyurl.com/lybjbb

Those are the only characters you are ensured will be the same, no matter what ccsid you use - with the exceptions stated in that article.

HTH
Vern

*rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

David,

Item one:
You are in a multilingual environment. You should NOT use || or !!. You should use concat instead. Much like the US Dollar sign will get changed to various other characters in different character sets so will those shortcuts for concat. In fact, everyone should avoid ||. Never can tell when mergers or acquisitions may take place and put you in a multi ccsid environment.

Item two:
SELECT DIGITS(myfield)!!'_'DIGITS(myotherfield) FROM mytable
You're missing the second concat between '_' and DIGITS(myotherfield).

Rob Berendt

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