Re: Convert a substring to a decimal -- MIDRANGE-L

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Off the top of my head can you simply load it into a flat file with a single full length field.

Build a logical own that to substring out the fields and copy to source direct if you can or produce a new text file with separators.

Or write a bit of code on the PC and insert the separators.

Or ...

Jon P.

On Mar 9, 2022, at 1:39 PM, a4g atl <a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am battling to get this to work.

I have a PC file with source from another system. The file is a basic text
file with no delimiters.

I need to import it into a source file and preserve the SRCSEQ, SRCDAT and
SRCDTA.

I have tried to use a SQL IMPORT as follows.

I have tried

INSERT into Lib/File
(select
cast(substr(1,6) as dec(6,2),
cast(substr(7,6) as dec(6,0),
substr(13,100)
from QTEMP.File);

I keep getting CAST errors SQL0420.

How could I achieve this?

TIA, DArryl Freinkel.
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