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Have you ever had one of those days? That which worked swell in the past no longer does. It must be advancing age.

I'm creating a PREPARE statement in my RPG program for an embedded SQL statement. I have a quotation mark field defined as:

D @Q S 4A Inz('''') Quotation Marks

I am creating a statement which contains several variable fields. I have had to resort to breaking the statements into segments and inserting character variables. I originally tried:

// Set Where For Records Having Days Past Due In Range For The Selected Agency
QQW = 'Where GRGDPD Between :DayN_From And :DayN_To ' + // Days Past Due In Range
' And GRGAID = :Proc_Agency '; // For This Agency

The compiler could not find Proc_Agency or the Day values, so I broke them into segments:

QQW = 'Where GRGDPD Between ' + Days_From + ' And ' + Days_To + // Days Past Due In Range
' And GRGAID = ' + @Q + Proc_Agency + @Q; // For This Agency

The value I have for Agency, 'XXXX, is shown in debug as ' XXXX ' with lots of spaces between the quote mark and the field value. In another example,

QQW = 'Where (BHBHST = ' + @Q + History_Code_Manual + @Q + // Select Manual History Code
' Or BHBHST = ' + @Q + History_Code_Special + @Q + ')' + // Select Special History Code
' And BHBTDT >= ' + %Char(Last_Run_7) + // Manual And Special Since Last Run
' And BHBTDT < ' + %Char(Today_7) ;

The history code fields are 3A, but show in debug as ' 123 '.

What will I need to do to tighten up these values and make my prepare statement function? I don't know if the client's system is causing this as I have been doing prepare statements for a few years and haven't had this much difficulty getting my RPG embedded SQL programs to run. At what point did :FIELDNAME stop working for me?

Thanks for your help.



Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC



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