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I am not very familiar with iseries/DB2. However, I work on a website that uses it as its primary database. A new column was recently added to an existing table. When I view it via AS400, I see the following data type: Type: S Length: 9 Dec: 2 This tells me it's a numeric field with 6 digits before the decimal point, and 2 digits after the decimal point. When I query the data with a simple SELECT ( SELECT MYCOL FROM MYTABLE ), I get back all the records without a problem. However, when I try using a DISTINCT , GROUP BY , or ORDER BY on that same column I get the following exception: [SQL0802]

How do you do LIMIT in DB2 for iSeries? I have a table with more than 50,000 records and I want to return records 0 to 10,000, and records 10,000 to 20,000. I know in SQL you write LIMIT 0,10000 at the end of the query for 0 to 10,000 and LIMIT 10000,10000 at the end of the query for 10000 to 20,000 So, how is this done in DB2? Whats the code and syntax? (full query example is appreciated) Joe Using FETCH FIRST [n] ROWS ONLY : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dzichelp/v2r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db29.doc.perf/db2z_fetchfirstnrows.htm SELECT LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, EMPNO, SALARY FROM EMP

I need to write a 'simple' util to convert from ASCII to EBCDIC? The Ascii is coming from Java, Web and going to an AS400. I've had a google around, can't seem to find a easy solution (maybe coz there isn't one :( ). I was hoping for an opensource util or paid for util that has already been written. Like this maybe? Converter.convertToAscii(String textFromAS400) Converter.convertToEBCDIC(String textFromJava) Thanks, Scott JTOpen , IBM's open source version of their Java toolbox has a collection of classes to access AS/400 objects, including a FileReader and FileWriter to access native AS400