need a function to display the current system date

The CURRENT DATE special register gives the current system date and CURRENT TIMESTAMP the current system date and time. This can be used in select statements or more directly using the VALUES statement:

You can try this one

db2 select current date from sysibm.sysdummy1

sysibm.sysdummy is the "Oracke dual" for DB2.

try

CREATE FUNCTION GETCURRENTSYSDATE()
     RETURNS CHAR(8)
     DETERMINISTIC NO EXTERNAL ACTION CONTAINS SQL
     BEGIN ATOMIC
     RETURN CHAR(YEAR(current date))||char(month(current date))||char(day(current day))
   END

CREATE FUNCTION GETCURRENTSYSDATE()
     RETURNS CHAR(8)
     DETERMINISTIC NO EXTERNAL ACTION CONTAINS SQL
     BEGIN ATOMIC
     RETURN CHAR(YEAR(current date))||char(month(current date))||char(day(current day))
   END

this gives the errors


DB21034E  The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a
valid Command Line Processor command.  During SQL processing it returned:
SQL0104N  An unexpected token "END" was found following "r(day(current day))
".  Expected tokens may include:  "<delim_semicolon>".  LINE NUMBER=5.  
SQLSTATE=42601

how would i call this function ?

thanks
H

Just like any other function.  :)

  SELECT getcurrentsysdate() from sysibm.sysdummy1;



Kent

thanks