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Thanks for the suggestion, Alan. I tried and it failed with the same reason. I tried to use the 'cast' also and that failed too. Will keep trying a few more options. cheers, -Jake. On 4/2/07, Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can only concatenate ("||") character fields. The two fields are both numeric. Try the following (even though it looks NOT like what I described) select dec(customer_month) || '-' || dec(customer_day) as "Date" from iso.customer; Alan Shore NBTY, Inc (631) 244-2000 ext. 5019 AShore@xxxxxxxx "If you're going through Hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/02/2007 11:50:25 AM: > Hello Guru's, > I am trying to execute a SQL statement in my RPG program but I am getting > this error. I was wondering if anybody ran into this before. > > SQL0440N No authorized routine named "||" of type "FUNCTION" having > compatible arguments was found. > > > my SQL statement is as follows. > select customer_month || '-' || customer_day as "Date" from iso.customer ; > > The data types of both customer_month and customer_day are decimal(2). > > I did a search on SQL0440N and it turned up as a bug. If so, has it been > fixed and I just need a 'patch' maybe? > > Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > cheers, > > -Jake. > -- > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. > -- This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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