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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:57:51+00:00

I have a field that is a decimal date (YYYYMMDD). I need to find

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I have a field that is a decimal date (YYYYMMDD). I need to find all
records that are a year or less old. Since date are so easy, I am
trying to do:

WHERE DATE(SUBSTR(CHAR(A.CPADDT),1,4) CONCAT '-' CONCAT 
      SUBSTR(CHAR(A.CPADDT),5,2) CONCAT '-' CONCAT
      SUBSTR(CHAR(A.CPADDT),7,2)) > CURRENT_DATE - 1 YEAR

This works great in the SELECT portion. When I put it in the WHERE
section I get “Selection error involving field *N.”

Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Selection error involving field *N. indicates you have an invalid date in your table.

    Check the job log for a CPD4019. The cause will include the relative record number of the bad date. 

    Message . . . . :   Select or omit error on field &10 member &1.            
Cause . . . . . :   A select or omit error occurred in record &5, record    
  format &7, member number &8 of file &2 in library &3, because of condition
  &6 of the following conditions:

    You can also use the Jon Skeet’s solution inline like so

    WHERE A.CPADDT > YEAR(CURRENT_DATE - 1 YEAR) * 10000                
+ MONTH(CURRENT_DATE - 1 YEAR) * 100 + DAY(CURRENT_DATE - 1 YEAR)

    and not have to worry about date conversion errors at all in addition to the other benefits.

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