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Re: TO_CHAR VARCHAR_FORMAT enhancement for numeric editing format-string

I was curious about 7.1, as well - the SQL Reference at Knowledge Center has this bit -


What's new as of April 2016

* Additional formatting options for TIMESTAMP_FORMAT and
VARCHAR_FORMAT scalar functions.

So it appears that some kind of update as of April this year provided the other capabilities, including character to varchar, timestamp to varchar, and number to varchar.

Now to get whatever update is needed to activate these things!

Vern



On 10/11/2016 10:38 AM, CRPence wrote:
On 11-Oct-2016 08:57 -0500, Dan wrote:
Just tried it on our v7r1 box.

I noticed the IBM i 7.1 that I use does not have the capability yet; when the docs were updated, they did not also show in the change flags what is the minimum TR or PTF level. I get sqlcode=-171 msg SQL0171 "Argument 1 of function TO_CHAR not valid."
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