Re: SQL with concantenate:

wrote:

Charles:

Good call on the CCSID I'll check that. CONCAT failed as well. We
have narrowed it down to only failing when the SQL comes from the web
page, not a native interface, so we know it's not the SQL engine.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/8/2013 8:43 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:

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?

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

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