Re: DISPLAY_JOURNAL, INTERPRET a DATE column

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Charles,

What are the field definitions for the file whose journal entries you 
are looking at?  At least the RECEIVE_DATE definition plus the fields 
before and after it.  What does DSPFFD show for their buffer positions?

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*Peter Dow* /
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On 5/9/2022 9:53 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
> on a v7.4 box that's reasonably current on PTFs...
>
> Using the QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL() UDTF to look at the journal entries for a
> specific table...
>
> I expected this to work..
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 297, 5)as DECIMAL(9,2)) as CORE_VALUE
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 302, 9)as CHAR(9)) as SHIPPER_NUMBER
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 311, 4)as DATE) as RECEIVE_DATE
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 315, 22)as VARCHAR(20)) as
> COUNTER_PERSON_NAME
>
> However, I get a cast error... looking at the entry data from pos 311 on,
> , substr(entry_data, 311) as hmm
> I see
> F0F0F0F160F0F160F0F100014040404040404040404040404040404040404040
> So it seems the date data type is surfaced as a CHAR(10) in ENTRY_DATA as
> this works
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 297, 5)as DECIMAL(9,2)) as CORE_VALUE
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 302, 9)as CHAR(9)) as SHIPPER_NUMBER
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 311, 10)as char(10)) as RECEIVE_DATE
> , interpret(substr(entry_data, 321, 22)as VARCHAR(20)) as
> COUNTER_PERSON_NAME
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks!
> Charles