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Hi John,
Good catch, but it was just a typo.
The actual problem was something else. I was a bit misleading when I
said "On v7r3...". While it is true that I was working on a QM Query
that was on a v7r3 IBM i, the remote system pointed to by the DDM file
is a v5r4 IBM i. And on v5r4, varchar_format only handles timestamp
fields. In my case, the first argument was a numeric field.
I should have remembered where the remote file was :(
It demonstrates that SQL is doing the selection and formatting on the
remote system. Something I haven't tested is whether a UDF must exist
on the local system as well as the remote system.
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*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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On 7/24/2020 7:52 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 7:58 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On v7r3, I have a QM query with SQL like this:
SELECT varchar_format( qty9, '999999990')
FROM my_ddm_file
where qry9 is defined as dec(9,0) and it fails with
SQL0171 Argument 1 of function VARCHAR_FORMAT not valid.
Hmm... well, could it have to do with `qty9` not being the same thing as `qry9`?
John Y.
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