How to convert varchar to date?

Hello everyone, I'm new to OBIEE and I'm running into a roadblock...
I have a date that is stored in a varchar2 column in the physical table, like so: 20071225
Silly I know, but that's what I'm dealing with.
Anyway, I want to create a logical column in the business model (using the Administration tool) and convert it to a date so that I can do date arithmetic with it, but TO_DATE doesn't seem to be supported.
In Oracle SQL would do this (I'm using XE):
SELECT SYSDATE - TO_DATE('20050101', 'YYYYMMDD') FROM DUAL
Is there any way to accomplish this same thing in the OBIEE? I see the CAST function, but there doesn't seem to be any way to cast a string to a date?

The original post is 4 years old - I am sure the poster must have figured it out by this time... obiee 11g supports a To_Datetime function though! thanks!

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