Moving a date field to a numeric field

I discovered something about moving a date field to a numeric field defined as 8
digits. I'm on V3R1.

D Date6                       S                  6   0  Inz(061397)
D DateISO                   S                    D     DatFmt(*ISO)
D Number8                  S                  8   0

C            *MDY           Move          Date6        DateISO
  *      DateISO now contains 1997-06-13

C             *YMD           Move         DateISO     Number8
  *      Number8 now contains 00970613

C             *MDY           Move         DateISO     Number8
  *      Number8 now contains 00061397

Am I missing something here, or can you not get an 8 digit date moved from
a data field to a numeric field? Is this unique to V3R1? Thanks for any help.

Joe Teff
QDS
Bloomington, MN
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