David, You will get more responses on DB2-L, but I believe this is due to the ability in DB2 V8 to have multiple CCSID's in a statement, so DB2 has gotten stricter on casting data types. I think SELECT CHAR(SUBSTR(GEODATA,85,4)) INTO :releaseDate ....
Will get you what you are looking for. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Logan Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DB/2 application error *sigh* Gotta love DB/2. Does anyone know why my code works fine in DB/2 v7 and fails (with a -303) in DB/2 v8? GEODATA in this table is a BLOB(140). ------------------------------------------------------------------- -303 A VALUE CANNOT BE ASSIGNED TO OUTPUT HOST VARIABLE NUMBER position-number BECAUSE THE DATA TYPES ARE NOT COMPARABLE ------------------------------------------------------------------- EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION; char releaseDateÝ4¨; long int currdate; EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION; EXEC SQL SELECT EFFDATE INTO :currdate FROM GEODATE WHERE PRODUCT='GEOSTAN'; //=============================================== // The following statement works fine in DB/2 V7, // but returns a -303 in DB/2 V8 //=============================================== EXEC SQL SELECT SUBSTR(GEODATA,85,4) INTO :releaseDate FROM CITYDIR WHERE ROWNUM=1 AND EFFDATE=:currdate; Thanks! David Logan Manager of Product Development, Pitney Bowes Business Insight http://centrus.com W: (720) 564-3056 C: (303) 818-8222 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
