Re: varchar_format illegal on customer box?

[Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thx Rob - i think i narrowed it down to we are on 7.2 and client is 7.1 or
less...

in 7.1 or less, I believe the answer is to refer to a timestamp initially
and not a date, such as...

select dec(varchar_format(
timestamp_iso(current_date), 'YYYYMMDD'),8,0)
from sysibm.sysdummy1


At least I found this through some googling which solved the problem for
one person on 7.1.

If anyone can confirm this it would be appreciated.

Jay

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Immediate thoughts:
> 1 - Different versions of IBM i
> 2 - Different PTF levels
> 3 - You're trying to simplify this to explain it to us and the customer
> box isn't really using current date but a select from a file and they have
> invalid data?
> 4 - Date formats of session attributes.  However I think that the point of
> this function is to not have to deal with that.
>
>
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> From:   Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   03/20/2018 08:57 AM
> Subject:        varchar_format illegal on customer box?
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> Trying to figure out why the below statements works fine in embedded sql
> on
> our development box but not for our customer?
>
>
>
> select dec(varchar_format(current_date, 'YYYYMMDD'),8,0)
>
> from sysibm.sysdummy1
>
>
>
> and
>
>
>
> select dec(varchar_format(current_date, 'MMDDYYYY'),8,0)
>
> from sysibm.sysdummy1
>
>
>
>
> and
>
>
>
> select dec(varchar_format(current_timestamp, 'HHMM'),4,0)
>
> from sysibm.sysdummy1
>
>
>
> On customer box, the joblog shows...
>
> Argument 1 of function VARCHAR_FORMAT not valid.
> DECIMAL use not valid.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Jay
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