Sorry to double post but I believe I side stepped your question. The data in the exported file is DATE with FORMAT 'YY/MM/DD'. The table has this same type and format. However, as I understand RECORD VARTEXT requires all columns to be 1 of 3 types. In this case VARCHAR is what I set CLR_DT to in the 'Define' statement. So I need to cast the text from VARCHAR to DATA as a result even though the exported data is in fact in the correct date format.
--Zack
Sorry to double post but I believe I side stepped your question. The data in the exported file is DATE with FORMAT 'YY/MM/DD'. The table has this same type and format. However, as I understand RECORD VARTEXT requires all columns to be 1 of 3 types. In this case VARCHAR is what I set CLR_DT to in the 'Define' statement. So I need to cast the text from VARCHAR to DATA as a result even though the exported data is in fact in the correct date format.
--Zack