RE: SQL: how to filter out spaces in fields defined as packed numeric

["Stone, Joel" <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yikes there are over 100 columns in this file.  Any way to accomplish WITHOUT naming almost all columns?

Also I need to copy each record AS IS, without dropping any columns.  I want to drop entire records with any bad data, but other records must retain all columns.

Thanks




-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SQL: how to filter out spaces in fields defined as packed numeric

Joel,
Try this:
SELECT f1.f2.etc.  from Datafile where substr(OrderQty,1,1) = x'40'
Replace the f1,f2,etc with field names from the file, but not the OrderQty
which SQL will see as invalid data.



On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Stone, Joel <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a file with hex '40' spaces in a field OrderQty defined to DDS as
> pack numeric.
>
> I am using SQL to read the file and SQL croaks when it reads these nasty
> invalid records.
>
> Is it possible to filter out these records in SQL?
>
> For example something like:
>
> SELECT * from Datafile where left(OrderQty,1) = *blanks
>
>
> Here is the SQL error:
> Data mapping error on member SQLTEMP1.
> A data mapping error occurred on field    OrderQty in
>
>
> 1 -- There is data in a decimal field that is not valid.
>
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