Complex IF statement

Trying to condition one of my detail lines with this IF statment:
<?if:(COUNT_SHIPMENTS != 1 and POH_PO_TYPE != ‘BLANKET’) or (POH_PO_TYPE = ‘RELEASE’ and POH_RELEASE_TYPE = ‘BLANKET’ or xdofx:upper(PLL_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1) != xdofx:upper(POH_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1) or xdofx:upper(PLL_SHIP_ADR_INFO) != xdofx:upper(POH_SHIP_ADR_INFO) or xdofx:upper(PLL_SHIP_COUNTRY) != xdofx:upper(POH_SHIP_COUNTRY)?>
I'm getting this error ... "Namespace prefix 'xdofx' used but not declared."
Is this because I'm mixing XSL with xdofx? And if so, how would I do an "upper" function in XSL?
Paul

Hi,
You need to use xpath syntax to access the header information. Think of it as being like a directory on your pc. If you are in:
/header/invoice/lines/distributions
and you look list the files you will only see the data that is in that directory. Similarly with xml if you are in a for-each loop at the distribution level you cannot look backwards without some additional syntax.
You will have to work out how many levels you need to go back but the syntax is:
<?../ELEMENT?> to go back one level
<?../../../ELEMENT?> to go back 3 levels
The xpath explanation in the user guide isn't fantastic (unless it's been updated recently). If you want to learn more I would recommend 'Learning XML' published by O'Reilly. It gives a good overview and explanation including the functions such as translate, substring etc.
Thanks
Paul

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Hi, Ben,
Wlecome to the forum!
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LEFT OUTER JOIN   maximo.labtrans     ON      labtrans.regularhrs         > 0
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                         AND     labtrans.siteid              = workorder.siteid
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AND       workorder.crewid       IN ('MAINT','DAF')
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...It looks like you have a Chasm Trap, where you have multiple, independent one-to-many relationships on the same table, and the solution to aggregate them in separate queruies.
It looks like you're trying to aggregate wplabor in scalar sub-queries, which makes the GROUP BY more complicated (as you discovered), and is also very inefficient.
It would be easier to code and more efficient to run if you aggregated wplabor in a sub-query, and then joined to this sub-query (and not the actual wplabor table) in your main query.
If you'd like help, post a little sample data (CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements) for all three tables, and the results you want from that data.
Simplify as much as possible. Instead of GROUPing BY 11 columns, just GROUP BY, say, 3 columns: the 2 involved in the join condidiotns, and one more. Once you understand how to do this, adding the other expressions will be trivial.
You can also simplify by ignoring, for now, the WHERE clause, and, therefore, the columns involved in the WHERE clause. It looks like that has nothing to do with the problem. Again, adding the conditions later will be trivial.

Error in CASE statement used in Reports query

My query has lots of selection criteria. I'm trying to use CASE for that.
This is a part of my query with parameters:
AND ad.location IN (CASE &p_location
WHEN 1 THEN
(SELECT TRIM(code_nbr) FROM code_detail
WHERE code_nbr like 'LC%')
WHEN 2 THEN -- then the user can type in more than 1 locations
&p_location1|| p_location2
END)
AND --- there are more conditions after this
The query fails that invalid relational operator in this CASE statement.
Any suggestions...is there any other way to do it...Thanks in advance

I would recommend the use of lexical parameters in the before report trigger
Set up a parameter SQL_WHERE - text, 4000 chars.
In your datamodel get rid of the case statement and just put &SQL_WHERE
In the before report trigger modify your case statement to be something like:
&SQL_WHERE:=' and ad.location in ';
case when :p_location = 1 then
&SQL_WHERE:=&SQL_WHERE||' select trim(code_nbr) from code_detail etc';
end
This way you can debug and test your case statement in the pl/sql environment. Plus the query should run faster as you are moving the complex where statement into a separate part of the report

HINTS in Select Statement

Hi,
Can anybody explain me why HITS keyword is used with SELECT statement, whats the use of if, How to find the HINTS for a particular table.
SELECT recn, recnroot, ippers
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE <ITAB1>
FROM CCIHT_IP
FOR ALL ENTRIES IN <ITAB2>
WHERE ippers = <ITAB2>-ippers
AND valfr LE sy-datum
AND valto GE sy-datum
AND iptype = 'INJ'
%_hints db2 '&max_blocking_factor 500&&max_in_blocking_factor 500&u2019.
-Rajiv

Hi,
Complex database statements or large numbers of secondary indexes that can be very
similar make it difficult for the database optimizer and the R/3 database interface to process
most efficiently. In some database systems, you can expressly influence decisions made by
database optimizer by what are known as hints.
Ex- %_HINTS ORACLE '&SUBSTITUTE VALUES&'.
Search with HINTS in SELECT STATEMENT you will get so many ans

Performance of SQL-Statements in Reports

Hi
I have a very complex SQL-Statement in a Region-Report with Items in the where-clause:
select ....
where idt_1 like :P1_IDT
and idt_2 like :P1_IDT2
...it generates 100 Million records in the Temp Tablespace and produce either a timeout or an error-message that the Temp-Tablespace is not big enough.
If I replace the Items with real values it runs in a few seconds in the SQL-Workshop.
select ....
where idt_1 like 10
and idt_2 like 11
...If I use the Region-Type based "PL/SQL Function Body returning SQL Statement" and generate the Statment like this:
v_statment:= 'select ... where idt_1 like ' || :P1_IDT;
return v_statment;it runs in a few seconds too.
Any explanations?
Regards, Juergen

JÃ¼rgen,
John's recommendation is sound. Your last two examples ultimately use literal values in your query statement (that is, the query optimizer can use these values to determine the optimal query plan). The query plans for the last two queries may be entirely different than what was generated for your first query.
Additionally, if the selectivity of your first query shifted dramatically across subsequent executions, the query plan initially generated may not be suitable again.
Examining the tkprof output should elucidate all of this.
Joel

XPATH statement help

I'm trying to write a little learning game in Flash, using
XML as the data source, but I can't get any XPATH statements to
work. I've written tons of XPATH against this structure in
JavaScript, and the XPATH statements evaluate properly in XML Spy,
but I always get "undefined" when I try to trace out the value of
the XPATH statements in Flash 8.
I'll post a valid (to XML Spy, that is) XPATH statement and
some sample code...
Thanks much for any help!
Mike

Okay, I'm experimenting now, I'll post if I figure out
anything useful. Although I admit, I'm not going to waste a lot of
time on this, if it looks like it's going to be overly difficult
(which it appears at this point it will be) given the limited
implementation, I'm just going to port the game to DHTML/Javascript
and use a decent XPATH implementation. I have probably 10 or more
relatively complex XPATH statements that I want to use, similiar in
logic to:
get all <theText> nodes whose parent <question>
node has a learningWheelUsage attribute set to "yes".
This is really simple in every other environment that I work
in, and I'm thinking it would just be easier to port the game to
something else than try to hack together a solution out of Flash's
limited implementation.
I'd want to put those into an array of course.. I haven't
given up hope yet, I'm going to do some more experimenting, but it
is FRUSTERATING!!!!! hahaha..
Thanks for the help!
Mike

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