Re: use of curdate within MVS - should it work?

[mandava <admin@TECHMAGIX.COM>]

Steve if it's DB2 database use CURRENT DATE instead curdate()
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Rogers" <srogers@KBTOYS.COM>
To: <SQR-USERS@list.iex.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:14 AM
Subject: use of curdate within MVS - should it work?


> We are in the process of converting  AS-400 version 7.5 of PeopleSoft HRMS
to
> MVS.  While testing an SQR containing the following code -
>
>      FROM PS_JOBCODE_TBL  JC
>      WHERE JC.SETID = SETID                           !
>      AND JC.JOBCODE like 'K%'
>      AND JC.EFFDT = (SELECT MAX(JC1.EFFDT)
>                      FROM PS_JOBCODE_TBL JC1
>                          WHERE JC1.JOBCODE = JC.JOBCODE
>                          AND JC1.EFFDT <= curdate() )
>           AND JC.EFF_STATUS = 'A'
>
>      I received an error that indicated that MVS could not handle curdate.
Here
> is the error
>
> (SQR 5528) DB2 SQL PREPARE/DECLARE error -440 in cursor 5:
>     DSNT408I SQLCODE = -440, ERROR:  NO FUNCTION BY THE NAME CURDATE
HAVING
> COMPATIBLE ARGUMENTS WAS FOUND IN THE CURRENT PATH
>
>     DSNT418I SQLSTATE   = 42884 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE
>     DSNT415I SQLERRP    = DSNXORFN SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR
>     DSNT416I SQLERRD    = -100  0  0  -1  0  0 SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION
>     DSNT416I SQLERRD    = X'FFFFFF9C'  X'00000000'  X'00000000'
X'FFFFFFFF'  X'
>              INFORMATION
>
>      Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to resolve it?
>
>      thanks,
>      Steve
>