Ok it indeed worked in 72 but does not work in 68 so seems to be a 68 bug. Now to further complicate my life my actual query pulls data from a ZTABLE where our ABAP developer has a field called APPLICATION. Apparently I found a NEW bug in 72 as it does not like the word APPLICATION passed in the where clause like this!
select field1 from table1 WHERE APPLICATION = 'XYZ'
Error = APPLICATION is incorrect of misplaced.
It likes all of my fields in where condition except will not allow the word 'application'.
Such fun!
-Patrick