Thanks John.  That's exactly what I thought, then I started doubting myself 
when I couldn't get it to work.  

Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate), Category, sum(expamt)                     
from EXP.EXPENSES                                                               
group by Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate), Category                                
order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3                                                      
                                                                                
---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
DSNT408I SQLCODE = -104, ERROR:  ILLEGAL SYMBOL "(". SOME SYMBOLS THAT MIGHT BE 
         LEGAL ARE: FOR WITH FETCH ORDER UNION EXCEPT QUERYNO OPTIMIZE          
DSNT418I SQLSTATE   = 42601 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE                                
DSNT415I SQLERRP    = DSNHPARS SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR                    
DSNT416I SQLERRD    = 0  0  0  -1  158  0 SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION            
DSNT416I SQLERRD    = X'00000000'  X'00000000'  X'00000000'  X'FFFFFFFF'        
         X'0000009E'  X'00000000' SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION                    


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Subject: Re: DB2 group by with date functions

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 Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , 
 Category, Sum(Expamt)                  
 from EXP.EXPENSES                      
 group by Year(expdate), Month(Expdate), category             
 order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3    

ref:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DSNAPK10/1.1.
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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology

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