Re: Creating an SQL function from a service program -- MIDRANGE-L

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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/09/2018
10:29:52 AM:

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/09/2018
10:26:28 AM:

It would seem your service procedure is expecting zoned-numeric
parameters and your SQL stored procedure is sending packed-decimal
parameters.

I should note that my reading of the SQL manual gives me to
understand that NUMERIC and DECIMAL are the same format -- packed

decimal.

I don't know of a way to specify zoned-numeric format in an SQL

parameter

other than to send it as character -- then the receiving procedure will
treat it as zoned-numeric.

I rechecked the SQL manual and it appears I was thinking of a
different dialect of SQL which stated that NUMERIC and DECIMAL were
interchangeable. The IBM i 7.1 manual states that NUMERIC *is* for
zoned-decimal format. So, I would set a service entry point on your
service program from RDi and check the hex values of the actual data that
is being passed from the stored procedure.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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