Re: Date for WrkNetF type MI call

The magic numbers are hex type and sub-type codes for a library (X'0401') and a
distribution index (X'0ED1' - X'0E' is the type for an index, and X'D1' the
subtype for this particular kind of index).  A list of some of the common types
is in the MI Functional Reference manual, and you can see others by dumping
objects of various types.

The send and arrival dates are at position 57 and 65 in the returned data,
respectively.  They are in 8-byte "system time-stamp" format (*DTS).  You can
convert them to a more friendly form using the QWCCVTDT API, described in the
Miscellaneous API's manual.  Any time you see 8-byte data (the last 2 or 3 bytes
may be zero) starting with hex 7 or hex 8, you can suspect it to be a
timestamp.  (Those starting with 8 are on or after Jan 1, 2000, and those
starting with 7 are before.)

--Dave

Jim Langston wrote:

> Gene sent me this code to replicate WRKNETF in RPG using MI.
> It works great, and I have stuck in in a service program and
> am starting to use it, but now I realize I also need to know
> the date the file was sent to me.
>
> I see this when I go to WRKNETF and so I started looking into
> the buffer that is being returned by this call in the Data
> data structure.  Using the debugger I did not see any place the
> date could be stored (looking into the 95 bytes that is not
> being used).  In fact for a few records those 95 bytes were
> exactly the same even thought he dates I know were different.
>
> I tried to figure out what this code was doing so maybe I could
> figure it out myself, but didn't get far.  I have next to no
> knowledge what is actually going on here, or what the X'0401'
> and X'0ED1' magic numbers mean, nor even where to look to try
> to figure it out.
>
> Can someone help me out here and tell me/show me how to modify
> this code to get the date the file was sent/received?
>
> >From the WRKNETF command:
>
>                                 File   -------From-------  ----Arrival----
>  Opt  File        Member       Number  User ID   Address   Date      Time
>       INRECX      BRECX001         27  SIMS      CONEX     01/03/01  23:48
>                                                            ^^^^^^^^
>                                                            Info I need also.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Langston

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