RE: Converting VARCHAR fields

Ah ha....you weren't telling us everything...shame on you ;-)

SQL passes character literals as VARYING by default (In fact, the only way to 
not do it that to use the CAST function and explicitly tell SQL that it is a 
fixed length.

So you don't need to use the hex coding.  Just use:

CALL V64BPCSUSR/SVLBRNEW (246065, 10, '01138')

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:52 PM
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> Subject: RE: Converting VARCHAR fields
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> 
> 
> Hi,
>       OK, I must still be missing something. I have tried all the
> suggestions and my output file still shows the field as  
> *01138. This is my
> new code:
> 
> H OPTION(*NODEBUGIO: *SRCSTMT)
> D InEmp              S             25A   Varying
> D WkEmp           S             25
> D String          DS
> D  Length                              5I 0
> D  Data                             255
> C                   EVAL      Data = InEmp
> C                   EVAL      WkEmp = Data
> 
> Not using the DS doesn't seem to work either. I had
> C                   EVAL      WkEmp = InEmp
> 
> Both ways, I still have unprintable characters at the beginning of the
> field. From all I have read, this should be a no brainer.
> I am calling this from SQL and the program has been made into a stored
> procedure. This is the call statement:
> CALL V64BPCSUSR/SVLBRNEW (246065, 10, X'0005F0F1F1F3F8')
> 
> I don't know if that is what is causing the problem or not. 
> What am I doing
> wrong?
> 
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