You could update the columns with a valid beginning date from some
arbitrary point. I think for ISO dates the first acceptable date was
somewhere in the 1940's.
1000-01-01 is definitely an invalid date in the database from my
understanding so I don't think Quantum is at fault.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 6
date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:57:28 -0400
from: "Michael Rosinger" <mrosinger@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WDSCI-L] how to report problems with Quantum DB plug-in?
List,
I am testing the Quantum DB plug-in. I was hoping I could use it as a
query
tool for the rest of the development staff but I have stumbled across a
problem that is a show-stopper (for our shop at least).
We have several tables that have DATE columns that contain a value of
"1000-01-01". The database was originally a DB2/VSE mainframe database
but
we migrated to system i about 2 years ago. The intent was to provide a
"low
date" for sort/comparison logic and avoid a NULL value. Right or wrong
it is
still a valid date as far as DB2 is concerned.
When a query is executed in Quantum and one of the rows in the result
set
has a DATE column with the "1000-01-01" value, you get the error
message,
"SQL0181 Value in date, time or timestamp string not valid." and the
query
fails.
I think part of the problem is that Quantum is defaulting to date format
MM/DD/YY and is failing when converting the format. We use the ISO date
format in all of our tables. I tried executing the SET OPTION DATFMT =
*ISO
statement but Quantum rejects the statement.
I posted this on the SourceForge list for bugs, but I am not so sure
that
list is being monitored. Is there another (better) way to report this
problem?
Can anyone suggest a circumvention for this problem? If there isn't one
the
Quantum tool is useless to us (for now at least) and that is unfortunate
because I think it is really nice and was enjoying using it.
midrange.com
