Re: PREPARE Statement Problem

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Something was, indeed, wrong with the PREPARE statement.  Or more 
precisely its placement.


Normally, I suppose (since I'm new to this), one would be dealing with a 
database on which the program is running.  I was connecting to a 
database on a different box.  The problem, as it turns out, was that I 
placed the CONNECT statement *after* the PREPARE's.  A little bit of 
info I neglected to include in my tome, thinking it wasn't relevant 
since eventually the connection was made. 


Once I out the CONNECT *before* the PREPARE's, everything was hunky-dory. 


It was Tommy who put me on the right track (shame on me for being mean 
to him; I'll buy you a drink at the next user group meeting) by 
suggesting that I look at the sqlcode and sqlstate values.  They weren't 
exactly crystal clear, but a heck of a lot better than the job log.

And I did have to use the cutesy little 67 parameter marker variable 
from the D-specs.  Is there a way to continue the VALUES clause when 
building it in a string in calcs, such as:


HdrString = 'INSERT Into ' + %trim(Library) + '/' + %trim(HdrFile) +  ' 
Values(?,?,?,
   ?,?)';


Just seems that, since it's part of a quoted string, there's no way to 
do the continuation with a '+' as it would think that (and the blanks) 
were part of the quote.


Thanks for the help, guys. 


        * Jerry C. Adams
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Wilt, Charles wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> The 10 parameter markers should work, assuming that none of the fields
> left out are defined with a default value or they allow NULL.  (In other
> words, you're not required to fill in a value.)
>
> The 67 parameter marker version should work.
>
> Try taking a look at SQLSTT/SQLCOD after the prepare statement.  The
> SQL0518 - Prepared statement *N not found. Error leads me to believe
> that something is going wrong during the prepare.
>
> Charles Wilt
> --
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
>  
>
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