RE: Wrong date

You can't continue with the SELECT by itself.

You could continue if you embed the SELECT in a stored procedure with the 
appropriate error handling.

The other option is to do the date conversion in a UDF with appropriate error 
handling that for
instance handles invalid dates by returning NULL.

Here's an example UDF:

create function CvtNumISOtoDate(indte Numeric(8,0)) returns Date 
language SQL                                                          
not fenced                                                            
deterministic no external action                                      
returns null on null input                                            
contains SQL                                                          
set option datfmt=*ISO                                                
begin                                                                 
  declare INVALID_DATETIME condition for '22007';                     
  declare exit handler for INVALID_DATETIME                           
    begin                                                             
      resignal sqlstate '01HD1'                                       
        set message_text = 'Invalid date/time replaced by NULL';      
      return NULL;                                                    
    end;                                                              
  return(                                                             
     case indte                                                       
      when 0 then NULL                                                
      when 99999999 then date('9999-12-31')                           
      else date(substr(digits(indte),1,4) concat '-' concat           
                substr(digits(indte),5,2) concat '-' concat           
                substr(digits(indte),7,2))                            
     end                                                              
   );                                                                 
end;                                                                  

HTH,
Charles
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Raul A. Jager
W.
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:52 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Wrong date

I have a text file with a date in a fixed position, I need to convert as much 
as possible from the
file to a table. 
This works almost fine:

SELECT decimal(substring(txt, 5, 7)) as codigo, cast(substring(txt, 84, 4) || 
'-' || substring(txt,
88, 2) || '-' || substring(txt, 90, 2) as date) as fecha FROM libr.file

It goes Ok until it finds a wrong date. (19570229 is the first problem) this is 
in record 2,035, the
SQL gives a SQL0180 and it stops.  It will be Ok to skip the record. 

Is there a way to tell SQL to skip the wrong date? or a way to select all 
records with wron dates?
It is a one time convertion.

TIA
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