Comments on: SQL and RPG 400 (SQLRPG) Variable lengths help required.

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:54:30 +0000

Didn’t see this question .. seems like it should have been solved something like this ..
wrkVar = ”’%’ + %trim(PNVAR) + ‘%”’

execsql
Select * from myfile
where PNUM Like :wrkVAR

The two quotes leaves a single quote in actual field the third quote terminates the string
so the field wkVar would contain ‘%123%’ followed by a bunch of spaces which would be ignored
Phil

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:41:54 +0000

Hi AS400rpgle
Please start a new question for this unrelated task.
Phil

By: as400rpgle

as400rpgle — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:50:13 +0000

How to print a PDF image which is stored in BLOB using SQL RPGLE?

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:18:11 +0000

Am I even on the right lines… who knows?

That depends whether the column in the database file is variable length or not. If the file has a fixed-length column, then you’re not quite on the right track yet, especially if the user may want to enter a value such as ‘%175′ instead of ‘%175%’.

Tom

By: as400kate

as400kate — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:00:56 +0000

Thanks… I have now sorted the problem with your help.

By: cwc

cwc — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:45:04 +0000

You

can

create a variable length field in RPG. It’s done by specifying the VARYING keyword in the definition. Just specify 15 as the length, since that would be its maximum.

In your calculations, you could use the %Len( ) built-in-function to get the actual number of characters that were entered in the field.