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QUESTION POSED ON: 05 March 2004
I'm writing an iSeries query. I need to include all of the items in a date range and then exclude two product types using a wild card. What is the wild card needed? Here is an example of the selection criteria I am using.

Select Records

Type comparisons, press Enter. Specify OR to start each new group.
Tests: EQ, NE, LE, GE, LT, GT, RANGE, LIST, LIKE, IS, ISNOT...


 
AND/OR  Field             Test   Value (Field, Number, 'Characters', or ...)
        IBIRDT            GT     2000001
 AND    IITEM             NE     '*CA'
 AND    IITEM             NE     '*EC' 

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Wild card characters in a query is '%' instead of '*". It seems like you are trying to exclude data that has 'CA' characters at the end of the field so it should be:
IITEM NLIKE '%CA'

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