Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-20 Thread Orvalho Augusto
Well I do not know what could be happening. I tried to append records to a table on DB2 (community Edition 9.5 on a Linux machine). And it works greatly. The only odd thing (may be because of my low skills on DB2) is I could not create neither append to a table on a different schema than dbuser (a

Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-20 Thread Elaine Jones
The query generated by R looks ok to me. I went ahead and pasted it into my DB2 Client command editor. And I got the message confirmation message. INSERT INTO STORAGE.TEST_APPEND2 ( "MACRONAME", "MACROUSER", "MACRO_RT" ) VALUES ( 's_ej_mach_config_vz', 'jones2', 5 ) DB2I The SQL command com

Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-20 Thread Orvalho Augusto
Now it becomes strange. One thing I note from this generated query: INSERT INTO STORAGE.TEST_APPEND2 ( "MACRONAME", "MACROUSER", "MACRO_RT" ) VALUES ( 's_ej_mach_config_vz', 'jones2', 5 ) The names of the variables are in double quotes; That is a problem. Can you try to run this query on another

Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-20 Thread Elaine Jones
Hi Felipe, Thanks for your message. Your approach works for an Access database. I am trying to insert records into a table in a DB2 database on a remote AIX server. My userid has the authority to insert records, and I am able to do that using another application (DB2 Client command line). Sincerely

Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-20 Thread Elaine Jones
Hello Caveman! I am able to append records using other applications. My credentials have the authority to append. I am able to query to select records, and even delete records from the remote DB2 table using RODBC. I'm just stuck when it comes to APPEND. The DB2 database is on an AIX server, and

Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-17 Thread Orvalho Augusto
Hello! Before you try from R. Can you tell us what happens when you use another DB2 client when you try with those credentials? One thing to note: If you are trying to access DB2 from ODBC on Linux on DB2 versions before 9.4 there are some particular issues and better check this http://holmwood.

Re: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-17 Thread Felipe Carrillo
rrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA --- On Fri, 10/16/09, Elaine Jones wrote: > From: Elaine Jones > Subject: [R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table > To: r-help@r-project.org >

[R] RODBC sqlSave does not append the records to a DB2 table

2009-10-16 Thread Elaine Jones
I am running R version 2.9.2 on Windows XP OS with RODBC version Version: 1.3-0. Has anyone out there in the R user community successfully appended records to a DB2 table on a remote database using the sqlSave function in the RODBC package? (or by any other means from R?) I posed a similar que