If you're doing SQLRPGLE, then I suggest bringing the value in as a
character value, and have your RPG code make the decision and conversion.
An error handling routine, which might also work, would have to be coded in
a User Defined Function. You can use the following syntax to handle an
error in conversion, and return a null value, which you can then convert in
your statement using the IFNULL function.
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLEXCEPTION
BEGIN
RETURN NULL;
END ;
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I've searched the archives for this and haven't been able to find an
answer. I inherited an SQLRPGLE program that reads (using SQL Fetch) an
old QS36F file and writes certain fields to another file. Unfortunately,
S/36 Environment still allows numeric fields to contain blanks (spaces).
When it tries to do a fetch on a record with a blank numeric field, SQL
quietly barfs on itself with status 22018, error -420. I've tried
explicit casting in various forms and none of them work. I've also added
and H-spec fixnbr(*zoned) which apparently has no effect on embedded SQL
Is there a simple way to get around this? I know I can do case logic for
each numeric field -
case
when substr(F00001,501,6) > '000000'
then substr(F00001,501,6)
else '000000'
end
But there are dozens of numeric fields in this file. And there are a
multitude of programs similar to this, waiting in the wings.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running out of aspirin.
TIA.
Timothy Adair
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