AW: Help with iDate -- MIDRANGE-L

What naming conventions are you using?
SQL-Naming or System Naming

When using System Naming is the library list set so it contains the library
where the function is located?
When using SQL Naming is the SQL Path set to contain the library where the
function is located?

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Jeff Young
Gesendet: Wednesday, 30.5 2012 18:06
An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Betreff: Re: Help with iDate

Alan,
I was using the date format *MDCCYY, but the error I received was that
CONVERTTOIDATE was not found. See my original message for the details.

Thanks,

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is your default date set to? If it is not set to a *USA type
format it would fail. The default that is set if you did not change it
is *ISO which is '2012-05-14'. You probably need to tell it which date
format to use. *MDCCYY probably.

select convertoidate('5/14/2012','*MDCCYY') form VXBEPIERM

The default date is in the documentation.

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Alan,
I was calling is from the i (strsql) using the following:
Select ConvertToiDate('5/14/2012') FROM VXBEPIERM Fetch first 1 row
only

Thanks,

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Difficult to say from a distance. Where are you calling the
function from? On the iSeries or from a PC. If calling from a PC,
you need to qualify with library holding the function.

As to your question as to whether iDate can handle a 5/5/2012 type
date. Yes it can. You can call a function in the service program
directly that will return a date.

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

All,
I have installed the iDate utility and the Select iDate(Date...)

function

works fine, but when I try to use the ConvertToiDate function, I
get

the

following message:
Message ID . . . . . . : SQL0204 Severity . . . . . . . :
30
Message type . . . . . :
Diagnostic

Message . . . . : CONVERTTOIDATE in *LIBL type *N not
found.
Cause . . . . . : CONVERTTOIDATE in *LIBL type *N was not found. If
the
member name is *ALL, the table is not partitioned. If this is an

ALTER

TABLE
statement and the type is *N, a constraint or partition was not

found.

If
this is not an ALTER TABLE statement and the type is *N, a
function, procedure, trigger or sequence object was not found.
If a function was not found, CONVERTTOIDATE is the service
program that contains the function. The function will not be
found unless the external name and usage name match exactly.
Examine the job log for a message that gives more details on
which function name is being searched for and

the

name
that did not
match.
Recovery . . . : Change the name and try the request again. If

the

object
is a node group, ensure that the DB2 Multisystem product is
installed on your system and create a nodegroup with the
CRTNODGRP CL command. If

an

external function was not found, be sure that the case of the
EXTERNAL

NAME

on the CREATE FUNCTION statement exactly matches the case of the
name exported by the service program.

When I check the results of the create program for iDate, I see
the
messsages:
SQL7997 0 105 Position 3 Function CONVERTTOIDATE was created

in

R37MODSC77.
SQL7997 0 116 Position 3 Function CONVERTTOIDATE was created

in

R37MODSC77.
The library containing the service program *is* in my library list.

I am on V6R1M1.

Thanks,

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