Thanks for your response Vernon
Ive been trying to get this final piece of the logic, with no success, for almost a week now
Your suggestion of
where (fld1, fld2) not in (select fld1, fld2 from 6th file)
maybe what I need
Once I get a couple of minutes (lol) I will play with this
Alan Shore
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 8:59 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Need to capture information when something is NOT there
Hi Alan
If you add another EXCEPTION JOIN on those 2 columns, your list would be what you want - or you can do a NOT IN - where (fld1, fld2) not in (select fld1, fld2 from 6th file) - that's really the same as EXCEPTION JOIN, though.
Do you need that extra column? What would it contain? I'm guessing some constant label, such as "not in file 6" or 'X' - just add that as a constant to the "field" list.
So what am I missing? :)
Vern
On 8/12/2020 7:19 AM, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Hi everyone
We are at V7r3
I hope that what I am about to ask, makes sense
I have an SQL query using 5 files with joins, exception joins etc,
that extracts a number of columns I would like to add another column,
that would use data from two of these columns and look in a sixth file
and let me know if there are NO records in that sixth file with those
2 values I cannot use any data from this sixth file as I am looking to
see if a "no record" condition exists
Anyone any ideas as to how to achieve this?
Alan Shore
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Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
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