Re: Issue using QMQRY selecting data using a variable

That should work - when using STRQMQRY without any SETVAR, Jeff (OP?) entered it with quotes - the system doubled up those quotes, so this would be the result.

There is an easier way, IMO, that I learned years ago in these lists - it gets rid of the need for all those funky quadruple quotes.

Remember that all SETVAR values have to be alpha - you are building a character string, right? Avoid quotes problems by making it so that all you put in are the alpha values, without quotes - ba-da-bing! For numeric values, don't have &QT around the substitution variable. For alpha values, wrap the sub variable with &QTs.

Make the statement in QMQRY to be like this -

SELECT IFCOMP, IFITEM FROM VINITMB WHERE IFITEM = &QT&ITEM&QT

Then you'd have STRQMQRY TEST SETVAR((ITEM '1010') (QT ''''))

This makes things so much easier in CL, too - much less need to handle quotes (unless they are embedded in the value) - so the above STRQMQRY could be like this, after a couple DCLs

DCL &ITEM *CHAR 4
DCL &QT *CHAR 1 VALUE('''')
STRQMQRY TEST SETVAR((ITEM &ITEM) (QT &QT))

Remember, the ampersands here are for CL variables, NOT the QM substitution variables.

HTH
Vern

On 9/9/2014 9:33 PM, Steve Landess wrote:

Jeff -

Try running it this way:

STRQMQRY TEST SETVAR((ITEM '''1010'''))

-sjl


"Jeff Young" wrote in message news:mailman.3739.1410314271.8590.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...

The. & character is not allowed in the variable name, and when I use the
SETVAR((ITEM '101.')) syntax, I get the error indicating a data exception
trying to cast field IFITEM as integer. This is a character field. .
On Sep 9, 2014 9:36 PM, "midrange" <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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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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