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Julie H.
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I need help converting a column from a view to a different type of character.


I am receiving this error message (in the "view source" option)

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 50 IN PROCEDURE corv_lon_pay
(FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED

because of this command I put in my FEX file in WebFocus

WHERE JULIAN GE &START_DATE_RANGE;

JULIAN is a column name and &START_DATE_RANGE is the parameter that I am passing through from the face of the report.

I am assuming that &START_DATE_RANGE is the computational character and JULIAN is the alpha character (format for JULIAN is ##### which was pulled from a longer string of numbers when the view was created Example 10201425688 larger number and I pulled 20142 from that number using substring to create the column JULIAN)

I need to know how to make JULIAN a computational character so I can use the command

WHERE JULIAN GE &START_DATE_RANGE;

Thanks!

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Danny-SRL
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Julie,

Apparently JULIAN is an alpha field. So your WHERE statement should be with quotes:
WHERE JULIAN GE '&START_DATE_RANGE';


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Julie H.
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Thank you, that worked perfectly!


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