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I have tried a number of ways including Dec(substr(tempfile,1,6). It seems
that SQL does not like to convert substrings to decimals.
I just retyped the example so a parenthesis could be missing. The idea was
to show the SQL.
Thanks, Darryl.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:06 PM Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Possibly bad data?

I'd suggest trying select cast(substr(1,6) as dec(6,2)
from qtemp.file and see if that work and looks sensible.
The repeat for cast(substr(7,6) as dec(6,0) and see if that works.
If all looks good, then try insert replacing substr(13,100) with 'abc'.

Sam

On 3/9/2022 1:39 PM, a4g atl wrote:
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.


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