Oracle-L: How to use pipe-delimited SQL*Plus output with a long datatype

From: <Cherie_Machler_at_gelco.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:23:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004A5A26.20020730052321@fatcity.com>

One of our developers wants to create a reusable report where the pipe-delimited output generated by SQL*Plus would be sent off and used as input into another process. The problem is the remarks field which is of type long. It causes ORA-00997 errors. If I take the pipe-delimits off, the report works o.k. If I take the remarks field out, the report works o.k. There seems to be an incompatibility between the two. The developer wants to have the remarks column included in the report and she also wants the fields to be delimited somehow.

I saw an informative document on Metalink about the ORA-997 error but there is no work-around suggested. Does anyone have any bright ideas? It is not possible to convert the long within the database, at this time. This database will be obsolete in a few months so it's not worth the hassle to recode all of the apps that use this field.

1 select /*+ USE_NL(CCD,CCDX,ERLI,ERH) */ ar.acct_no || '|' ||

  2  ar.intl_rep_no || '|' ||
  3  ar.rep_id || '|' ||
  4  cr.last_name || '|' ||
  5  cr.first_name || '|' ||
  6  erh.cnfr_no || '|' ||
  7  erli.line_item_amt || '|' ||
  8  erli.line_item_dt || '|' ||

9 erli.line_seq_no || '|' ||
10 ccd.merch_name || '|' ||
11 erh.remarks
12 from acct_rep ar,

 13         client_rep cr,
 14         exp_rpt_hdr erh,
 15         exp_rpt_line_item erli,
 16         chrg_card_dtl_xref ccdx,
 17         chrg_card_dtl ccd
 18   where '49368' = erh.acct_no
 19     and ccd.intl_rep_no = erh.intl_rep_no
 20     AND cr.clnt_no = ar.clnt_no
 21     AND cr.intl_rep_no = ar.intl_rep_no
 22     AND erh.intl_rep_no = cr.intl_rep_no
 23     AND erh.acct_no = ar.acct_no
 24     AND erh.intl_rep_no = ar.intl_rep_no
 25     AND erh.cnfr_no = erli.cnfr_no
 26     and trunc(erh.submit_dt) > trunc(sysdate - 25)
 27     AND '810' = erli.pay_seq_no
 28     AND ccdx.cnfr_no (+) = erli.cnfr_no
 29     AND ccdx.line_seq_no (+) = erli.line_seq_no
 30     AND ccdx.cnfr_No is null
 31     AND ar.acct_no = '49368'
 32     AND ccd.acct_no = '49368'
 33     AND ccd.trans_dt = erli.line_item_dt

34* AND ccd.posted_amt = erli.line_item_amt SQL> /
erh.remarks
*
ERROR at line 11:
ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype

Thanks for any advice.

Cherie Machler
Oracle DBA
Gelco Information Network

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