Re: How Come

Hmm, your order by uses substr....  I'd probably change this to ORDER BY 1, 
which refers to the first column in the result set....  I know that order by 
works with ordinal values.....  I didn't think you could do expressions in the 
order by clause.....

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Subject: [WDSCI-L] How Come




P Decl_Saexpom    B

      /FREE

       EXEC SQL

        Declare SAEXPOM

        Cursor for

         SELECT SUBSTR(SAEXPO,1,4) AS STORE, 

                SUBSTR(SAEXPO,5,8) AS DATE, 

                SUBSTR(SAEXPO,13,4) AS CODE, 

                SUBSTR(SAEXPO,15,2) AS Codesfx,

                SUBSTR(SAEXPO,17,12) AS AMOUNT

         FROM SAEXPOM

         WHERE SUBSTR(SAEXPO,13,4)
IN('1250','1260','1450','1460','2050','2060','2450','2460')

           AND SUBSTR(SAEXPO,1,4) >= ' 100'

SQL0104 Token SUBSTR was not valid. Valid tokens: ) ,

         ORDER BY SUBSTR(SAEXPO,1,4);

 

 

The above is strange and happens fairly regularly.  The statement is not
in error and executes just fine.  How come?

Thanks

Bill Barnes

The above works if I change it to fixed form.  Obviously another RPG/SQL
problem.  Is it just me or is IBM having a lot of issues with embedded
SQL and they have spilled over into RSE?