Re: JDBCR4 program with a null field in the WHERE statement

You can't specify *NULL like that -- it'll think that you want to set a string containing the text '*NULL' rather than setting the value to a database null.

There's an additional (optional) parameter to setString that can be set to *ON for null or *OFF for not-null, however.

So you'd do it like this:

JDBC_SetString(prepstm: 1: '': *ON);

As for the SELECT statement, it has to follow the syntax rules of the database engine. I'm guessing by the "dbo" prefix that you're working with Microsoft SQL Server. If so, you'll need to determine if they allow you to do "WHERE (field = null)" the way you've done it or not... I personally do not have enough experience with MS to know.




On 6/26/2013 3:20 PM, Kim Massar wrote:

I am using Scott's JDBCR programs to get data from our SQL server into an RPG program. I have used this successfully before now I have a problem with a null field in my WHERE statement. Is it possible to compare for nulls? Is it possible to check for nulls in my process_flag field below? I have tried '*Null' and 'is_null'



prepstm = JDBC_prepStmt(conn : 'SELECT * ' +
'FROM dbo.Error_File ' +
' WHERE (dbo.Error_File.Process_flag = ?)' );


If (prepstm = *NULL);
jdbc_close(conn);
return;
EndIf;

// Set SQL parameter values
JDBC_SetString(prepstm:1:'*NULL');




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