Scalar functions

Operating Systems: i5/OS
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An Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) query contains scalar functions for doing type conversions, string manipulation, and for manipulating date-time values.

The list of scalar functions is documented in the topic EJB query: Scalar functions.

Find employees hired in 1999:

SELECT OBJECT(e) FROM EmpBean e where YEAR(e.hireDate) = 1999

The only scalar functions that are guaranteed to be portable across backend datastore vendors are the following:

The other scalar functions should be used only when DB2 is the backend datastore.

Using EJB query