Re: Embedded SQL issue.

["Jake Morkel" <jakeroc@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> 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.
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