Re: Constants used in field definition (SQLRPGLE)

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The SQL pre-processor doesn't support RPG constants...

Charles

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:47 AM Åke Olsson <konsult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I noticed something weird when testing an SQL program I am writing. The
> program parses message queues in search of escape messages.
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> The message data is then received in a character variable for later
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> But if I define the receiving variable like this:
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> dcl-c Used_Ccsid 278;
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> dcl-s Messtxt char(100) ccsid(Used_Ccsid);
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> The SQL fetch fails with SQLSTATUS  57017 “Character conversion between
> CCSID 1200 and CCSID 65535 not valid)
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> Whereas if I define the “Messtxt” variable like this
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> dcl-s Messtxt char(100) Ccsid(278);
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> It all works fine
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> Normally defining various features of variables using constants for say
> number of digits, sizes or similar works perfectly fine.
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