LUEBBKEVIN
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Someone asked me why they couldn't specify a field as a date in their DDS. I don't recall.....HELP
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DDS field data type date
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One consideration is null field processing. You need to use the ALWNULL keyword on the field in DDS and use RPG4's %NULLIND BIF to set the null indicator on or off. Unless, that is, you don't mind '01-01-0001' as a default date.
Where I work, we use 7-byte CYYMMDD fields for dates. I wrote some modules to do the conversion to or from 6 or 8 byte numeric fields for displaying and printing. "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
--Charles Schultz
Where I work, we use 7-byte CYYMMDD fields for dates. I wrote some modules to do the conversion to or from 6 or 8 byte numeric fields for displaying and printing. "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
--Charles Schultz
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