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That worked:
select coalesce(COLUMN_TEXT, COLUMN_HEADING, cast('' as char(1) ccsid 37)) as COLUMN_TEXT

But I'd really like to know why it's defaulting to 65535.




-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Kingsley [mailto:iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 4:48 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Character conversion between CCSID 1200 and CCSID 65535 not valid.

Justin, from this example try and code it.

SELECT emidnm, emfnam, CAST(emlnam AS CHAR(20) CCSID 37)





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