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Asked: 2026-06-07T11:40:05+00:00

For reporting purposes, I would like to retrieve my date(digits(mydate7)) field as mm/yyyy .

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For reporting purposes, I would like to retrieve my date(digits(mydate7)) field as mm/yyyy.

I have tried month(date(digits(mydate7)) + '/' + year (date(digits(mydate7)) as mmyyyy but get null as result. I can test with month(date(digits(mydate7)) and the year function individually and get a return set of data but not combined in field.

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  1. Editorial Team

    DB2/400 uses the double pipe character for concatenation:

    RTRIM(CHAR(MONTH(DATE(DIGITS(mydate7))))) || '/' || RTRIM(CHAR(YEAR(DATE(DIGITS(mydate7)))))

    Assuming mydate7 is in the format yyyyddd you could simplify it as:

    RTRIM(CHAR(MONTH(DATE(DIGITS(mydate7))))) || '/' || SUBSTR(DIGITS(mydate7),1,4)

    Simplified further with implicit casting:

    RTRIM(MONTH(DIGITS(mydate7))) || '/' || RTRIM(mydate7/1000)

    See the concatenation operator for more information.

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