RE: SQL Date function question

If you use CCYYMMDD and the value return as 20110101 it will work.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 4:51 PM
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Subject: SQL Date function question

I've got a program that uses dynamic SQL and I'm having a hard time
finding documentation for this, or to find out if it's even possible.

The file contains a date in the format MMDDCCYY. I need to compare
the year entered in a query with the year in the date. At first I
thought I could just substring off characters 5-8, but that won't work
since for example:

Jan 1, 2011

is stored as

112011

So obviously that won't work. :)

Does SQL on the iSeries have a way to convert this type of date to
something and then yank the year out to compare it against a text
literal?

Thanks!

Brad