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  3. March 2018

Re: varchar_format illegal on customer box?

We're still on 7.1. I can confirm that the examples in your OP won't work
on our box, but
select dec(varchar_format(
timestamp_iso(current_date), 'YYYYMMDD'),8,0)
from sysibm.sysdummy1
does work.

- Dan

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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.


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