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On 20 May 2013 15:41, Gary Thompson wrote:
Maybe this helps:
SELECT CAST
(REPLACE ( CHAR(DATE(CURRENT_DATE)), '-', '' )
AS DECIMAL(8,0)) AS CURYYYYMMDD
FROM SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1
You should be able to run the statement above from STRSQL,
so this shows how to convert CURRENT_DATE to an 8 digit decimal.
Your output should be something like:
....+....1..
CURYYYYMMDD
20,130,520
That query fails to state an important assumption; i.e. that the
DATFMT for the SQL environment must be *ISO. Best to always remove any
assumptions when easily effected. In this case, the CHAR function has a
second argument for when a DATE [expression] is the first argument, and
that second argument would best be the value ISO to avoid encountering a
/failed assumption/ in the query. Additionally FWiW, the use of the
DATE() scalar is redundant and the lack of a space\blank after the comma
in the precisions\scale specification would fail syntactically in a
language that uses the comma as a decimal separator. The expression
shown in the VALUES should be sufficient to avoid failed assumptions
with both the DATFMT and DECFMT\DECPNT settings:
values ( dec( replace( Char( current date , iso ), '-', '' ), 8 ) )
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