Is there a way to partial field (or substring) a DESCR254_MIXED (long character field) in a SQL statement?

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Is there a way to partial field (or substring) a DESCR254_MIXED (long character field) in a SQL statement? Have tried the following, which do not work: column descr254_mixed format A30 set wrap off select descr254_mixed from PS REQ_LINE SELECT left(descr254_mixed, 20) from PS_REQ_LINE
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SELECT substr(descr254_mixed,1, 20) as desc20 from PS_REQ_LINE

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