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Problem Note 67724: A DB2 error might occur when queries that are passed to the DB2 database contain single quotation marks that are not escaped
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An error might occur when a query that is being passed to the DB2 database contains an embedded single quotation mark in a character value that is not escaped. The error might look similar to the following:
DB2 ERROR:
RESULT OF SQL STATEMENT:
DSN00104E ILLEGAL SYMBOL " ". SOME SYMBOLS THAT MIGHT BE LEGAL ARE: AT YEAR YEARS MONTH MONTHS DAY DAYS HOUR HOURS MINUTE MINUTES
A DUMP OF THE SQLCA FOR THE GET DIAGNOSTICS REQUEST FOLLOWS: ROW NUMBER: 0 ERROR CONDITION: 1 REASON CODE: 0
SQLCODE: -104 SQLSTATE: 42601 SQLERRP: DSNHPARS
RESULT OF SQL STATEMENT:
DSN00104E ILLEGAL SYMBOL " ". SOME SYMBOLS THAT MIGHT BE LEGAL ARE: AT YEAR YEARS MONTH MONTHS DAY DAYS HOUR HOURS MINUTE MINUTES
A DUMP OF THE SQLCA FOR THE GET DIAGNOSTICS REQUEST FOLLOWS: ROW NUMBER: 0 ERROR CONDITION: 1 REASON CODE: 0
SQLCODE: -104 SQLSTATE: 42601 SQLERRP: DSNHPARS
The issue occurs when the following is true:
- You are running SAS® on the z/OS operating system.
- Your character value contains a Shift Out (SO), hex code x'0E', before the embedded single quotation mark.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 | z/OS | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 |