Re: SQL with concantenate:

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any chance you're doing this on a non-english system?

The pipe , |, character is not one of the invariant characters and is thus
not supported for every CCSID.

Try using the CONCAT function instead.

Charles


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> V7R1 with current cumulative and reasonably close groups:
>
>
> When we try to run a statement with that concatenates fields (in this
> case concatenating a couple fields to form a DESCRIPTION), the result is
> always null. When we remove the || and just return one of the fields
> without any concatenation, it comes back fine.   Both columns are
> defined as DDS character.
>
> Example:
>
> SELECT FRBKNBR as REQ,
>
> FRBKRQST as RQST,
>
> (FRBKNBR || ' - ' || FRBKRQST) as DESCRIPTION
>
>   We get REQ and RQST just fine, but DESCRIPTION comes back as null
>
> SQL gurus:  Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
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