Re: TIMESTAMPDIFF Not Found

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Vern and Birgitta...it seems the problem is that this SQL
statement was generated using an old version of Showcase. I *guess*
Showcase had it's own date UDF. I think my problem is I assumed this
was *real* SQL, and it wasn't. Thanks!

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Birgitta Hauser <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Date format YYYYMMDD is not allowed with DB2 UDF for i.
>
> A character string representing a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD or
> MM/DD/YYYY or DD.MM.YYYY can be converted into a real date without
> specifying any date format:
> Date(MyDate)
>
> If you want to convert a numeric field (8,0 format YYYMMDD) into a real date
> using the following syntax is the easiest:
> Date(Digits(MyDate) concat '000000')
>
> BTW it seems to me your time is 6,0 format HHMMSS.
>
> To convert a numeric date (8,0) and numeric time (6,0) the easiest way is:
> Timestamp(Digits(MyDate) concat Digits(MyTime))
>
> Timestampdiff needs the difference between 2 timestamps defined as CHAR(22).
> Not sure what SQL_TSI_SECOND is, in either way it needs to be an integer
> with either value 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256.
>
> Timestampdiff(2, Cast(MyTimestamp1 - MyTimestamp2 as Char(22)))
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>
> Birgitta Hauser
>
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> Gesendet: Wednesday, 26. January 2011 14:22
> An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Betreff: TIMESTAMPDIFF Not Found
>
> I'm trying to debug a colleagues SQL statement, and when I put it into
> Visual Explain, I'm getting an error that TIMESTAMPDIFF can't be
> found. I'm also getting errors that the date format identifier
> (yyyymmdd) is not in any of the tables. Is there a format identifier
> on the date function? I'm playing around with the statement, removing
> and adding to see if I can get it to work. Here's the original SQL
> statement:
>
> SELECT  date( POSEVTP.EVDATE, yyyymmdd ) AS EVDATE,
> XMSTNO,
> XMINNO,
> XMINVT,
> POSEVTP.EVUSER,
> POSEVTP.EVBEFR,
> POSEVTP.EVAFTR,
> POSEVTP_1.EVAFTR AS EVAFTR_1,
> POSEVTP_1.EVUSER AS EVUSER_1,
> TIMESTAMP( date( POSEVTP.EVDATE, yyyymmdd ), substr( digits(
> POSEVTP.EVTIME ), 1, 2 ) || ':' || substr( digits( POSEVTP.EVTIME ),
> 3, 2 ) || ':' || substr( digits( POSEVTP.EVTIME ), 5, 2 ) ) AS
> COLUMN0003,
> TIMESTAMP( date( POSEVTP_1.EVDATE, yyyymmdd ), substr( digits(
> POSEVTP_1.EVTIME ), 1, 2 ) || ':' || substr( digits( POSEVTP_1.EVTIME
> ), 3, 2 ) || ':' || substr( digits( POSEVTP_1.EVTIME ), 5, 2 ) ) AS
> COLUMN0002,
> FLOAT( TIMESTAMPDIFF( SQL_TSI_SECOND, ( TIMESTAMP( date(
> POSEVTP_1.EVDATE, yyyymmdd ), substr( digits( POSEVTP_1.EVTIME ), 1, 2
> ) || ':' || substr( digits( POSEVTP_1.EVTIME ), 3, 2 ) || ':' ||
> substr( digits( POSEVTP_1.EVTIME ), 5, 2 ) ) ), ( TIMESTAMP( date(
> POSEVTP.EVDATE, yyyymmdd ), substr( digits( POSEVTP.EVTIME ), 1, 2 )
> || ':' || substr( digits( POSEVTP.EVTIME ), 3, 2 ) || ':' || substr(
> digits( POSEVTP.EVTIME ), 5, 2 ) ) ) ) ) / FLOAT( 60 ) AS COLUMN0005,
> XMRETL
> FROM
> NEWSYS.POSEVTP POSEVTP,  NEWSYS.POSMSTP POSMSTP,  NEWSYS.POSEVTP POSEVTP_1
> WHERE
> POSEVTP.EVTRAN=POSMSTP.XMTRAN AND
> POSEVTP.EVTRAN=POSEVTP_1.EVTRAN AND
> POSEVTP.EVAFTR=POSEVTP_1.EVBEFR AND
> ( POSEVTP_1.EVAFTR = 'I' AND POSEVTP.EVDATE = 20041219 )
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks!
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