Progress Db Casting A Number To Add A Character

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I don't know how to describe this so I'm going to do my best here...

In a select:

SELECT "PUB"."EMPLOYEEID" as IdNum from Users


Works, and it pulls up a list of ID numbers. However, I need the numbers to have a leading 0 if they are only 4 characters long.

So I wrote up a length checker and it was failing. So I dropped back and just attempted to add a zero to all to see if that was causing the issue and sure enough it was. It seems the column is a type number of some sort (I don't have access to the schema) so the command

SELECT '0' + "PUB"."EmployeeID" as IdNum from Users


Does not work... I can add the '0' to a name field with no issues. So I assume it's a casting issue of some sort. With MSSQL I can do this without converting fields.... Unfortunately, I'm not extremely versed in Progress...

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