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Greg
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I am making a static drop down menu to choose a
department ID. If I do an WHERE DEP_ID EQ 500 it does not find any records because 500 could be in the database as ' 500' or ' 5000' or ' 500' or any number of random spaces.

If I do a CONTAINS 500 I get records, but I get
500, 465001, anything that contains 500.

I just want the param to look at the last 3 places. 

WHERE ( DEP_ID CONTAINS '&DEP_ID.(<500,500>,<501,501>).Department:.' )


I thought $* or '%500' would work, but I am getting no output.

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Francis Mariani
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How about 
WHERE DEP_ID LIKE '%500'


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Greg
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I can get this to work as a stand alone WHERE statement, but it does not work as part of a param in a drop down menu.


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Jveselka
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Have you tried to create you dropdown with a procedure,

This would allow you to use your
WHERE DEP_ID EQ '&DEP_ID';

Call your fex something like dropdown_for_dep_id.fex

TABLE FILE YOUR DB2 TABLE
BY DEP_ID
BY DEP_ID
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END


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Greg
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I will try this in the morning. But it looks like it will work.

Thanks!


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Doug
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500 could be in the database as ' 500' or ' 5000' or ' 500' or any number of random spaces.
How about TRUNCATE'g the incoming field and then chack on it in your WHERE statement?

quote:
WHERE DEP_ID LIKE '%500'
Not sure this as that would also bring back department '46500'.
 
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