RE: Need help with SQL SET statement

[Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>]

I believe its because you cannot update part of a field
Try
 UPDATE MYLIB/MFFILE  SET myFLD = substr(myFLD,1,5)|| '0000    '
 where substr(myFLD,6,8) ='    '


The character || is concatenation. NOTE there are 4 blanks after the 4 0's


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Roger,

 UPDATE MYLIB/MFFILE  SET substr(myFLD,6,4) ='0000'
 where substr(myFLD,6,8) ='    '

This is not working. Got error message "Token ( was not valid. Valid
tokens: =. "

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 UPDATE MYLIB/MFFILE  SET substr(myFLD,6,4) ='0000'
 where substr(myFLD,6,8) ='    '

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