RE: Issue using QMQRY selecting data using a variable

Why this ? 'ITEM' your cl variable is &ITEM (with no quotes)
(not at a system to test this..) but ... setvar((&ITEM '1010))
Jim


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan
Campin
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 7:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Issue using QMQRY selecting data using a variable

I assume you are running in cl? If yes, must be triple quoted. '''1010'''.
On Sep 9, 2014 5:11 PM, "Jeff Young" <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,
I have a QMQRY in SQL format with the following statement:
SELECT IFCOMP, IFITEM FROM VINITMB WHERE IFITEM = &ITEM

Field IFITEM is defined as Char 20 and can contain numbers, characters
or a mix of both.

When I run this using STRQMQRY *without* specifying any values for the
SETVAR keyword, it prompts for the value of *"ITEM"*. i enter *'1010'
*and get a report of all records with that value.

When I run it using the STRQMQRY *with* specifying the SETVAR keyword
as
follows:
STRQMQRY TEST SETVAR(('ITEM' ' '1010')) the query ends abnormally with
a message in the joblog indicating a selection error on field IFITEM.
The prior messages indicate that it is attempting to CAST the IFITEM
field as INTEGER.

What am I missing here?
Is it not possible to pass a character value as a variable to a QMQRY?

TIA,

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
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