RE: SQL error causes all batch jobs to fail

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David FOXWELL wrote:
> Just arrived to find that all our nightly jobs that used
> a particular application ended in error when they tried
> to execute some SQL instructions.
>
> The program prepares a cursor from a request that is calculated, 
> of this type :
>
> SELECT DIGITS(myfield)!!'_'DIGITS(myotherfield) FROM mytable

Well, if that?s the complete statement, you're missing a pair of |
characters before the second "digits"

> Each program gave the same error during preparation of the
> SQL statement : Elément syntaxique ! n'est pas correct. Eléments
>  possibles : + - AS
> (hope the translation of that is obvious).

For improved debugging and troubleshooting, you would do well to obtain the
SQLCOD value under such circumstances.  Then rather than hoping that the
translation is obvious, you can provide an SQL error number:
  When ABS(SQLCOD) is between 0 and 9999, SQL + 4-digit number
  When ABS(SQLCOD) > 9999, SQ + 5-digit number 

Messages are in QSQLMSG.

Dennis Lovelady
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