Even more of a problem, you’re not actually using “SQL”. You’re using Microsoft’s functions that do things in their own ways. There’s nothing wrong with that; it just isn’t quite how an INSERT would be done in standard SQL for AS/400s which tend to follow actual SQL standards much more closely in supported statements.

I’m really sorry it took so much to get around to the real problems.

For future questions, begin with pasting a copy of some actual attempt at coding a solution. Add a description of the environment that includes any client and/or server operating system levels, any client/server products that might be in use for the problem, and any specific error messages. If there are message identifiers that you can see, those can be more important than the message text.

If you don’t know an important detail, make sure you ask how to track it down. Learning how to find that stuff out can be more important than just getting a direct answer. (Sometimes the wrong question might be asked, so a direct answer could just put you farther down the wrong path even if the answer is totally ‘correct’.)

Nevertheless, glad something is working for you!

Tom

As I said, I’m not very knowledgeable about SQL; I didn’t need the VALUES statement, did I?

THIS worked perfectly:
INSERT OPENQUERY (WMT400, ‘SELECT rllotn, rlitem, rlmm, rldd, rlyy FROM rmtlib.rmtfile’)
Select lotnum, itemnumber, datepart(mm,manufactured) as F1, datepart(dd,manufactured) as F2, datepart(YY,manufactured) as F3
from lots

Finally, I can make progress on my project!

INSERT OPENQUERY (WMT400, ‘SELECT rllotn, rlitem, rlmm, rldd, rlyy FROM crpdta.frobarlot’)
VALUES (‘A10101′, ‘B20202′, 02, 22, 1963)

and inserted 1 row of static data into the AS400 file. What I need to know is how to set up the “VALUES” part of my sql command. Does this help?

INSERT OPENQUERY (WMT400, 'SELECT rllotn, rlitem, rlmm, rldd, rlyy FROM rmtlib.rmtfile')
VALUES ('select lotnum, itemnumber, datepart(mm,manufactured) as F1, datepart(dd,manufactured) as F2, datepart(YY,manufactured) as F3
from lots')

BUT I just don’t know the correct way to format the command.
The remote file on WMT400 is in rmtlib and is rmtfile. The fields are rllotn=20A, rlitem=30A, rlmm=2 signed numeric, rldd=2 signed numeric, rlyy=4 signed numeric.
The SQL table is lots and has LotNum=20A, ItemNumber=30A, manufactured=datetime. Using datepart gives me each individual piece in (I think) numeric format.
Here is my error: Msg 213, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Insert Error: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition.

I also tried the same command to a file where the remote file had RLMM, RLDD, RLYY as alpha fields and tried the command that way too. Same error.

One potential problem is that your connection doesn’t have properties that allow updates. Is the file journaled on your AS/400?
I do not know how to check the properties to see if I can do updates on the 400. It IS journaled.

Norma

My apologies. It seemed as if the date was where your insert was getting hung up.

In that case, the question is now less clear. You do an insert by coding and executing a SQL INSERT statement.

But because that’s such an obvious answer, there must be something else that you are asking about. Why isn’t INSERT working for you? Are you seeing an error message? What error?

One potential problem is that your connection doesn’t have properties that allow updates. Is the file journaled on your AS/400?

Tom

But yes, to get the data into SQL, my AS400 date was an 8 character alpha field where 09/15/2010 was in the file as “09-15-10″. I performed a cast function on the insert into the SQL table to get the date into smalldatetime format – That worked just great.

The SQL table that I’m pulling from has the date in the datetime format. I assume I’ll have to do some type of convert to get it into some type of format that I can bork with.

Thnks,
Norma

Can you elaborate on that?

Phil’s right. Is that actually an 8-byte character field that contains date values in that format?

Tom

AS400 = V5R4M0
SQL Server = 2005
Connection = Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Connection
Then I linked the server via SQL 2005, Server Objects, Linked Servers.

Previously, when I brought data into the sql db, I took a “mm-dd-yy” alpha field and used a CAST conversion to get it into my sql smalldatetime. I am not concerned with the time at all, just the date.