Re: UDATE moving to 8 digits??? -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 03:49 PM 5/6/98 -0400, Buck Calabro wrote:
>One of the folks here was told by a software vendor that IBM had plans to 
>change UDATE from 6,0 to 8,0.  Has anybody else heard of this?  In my 
>infinite wisdom (snort) I dismissed this as preposterous, but I thought 
>I'd check on the off chance...

Buck,

They did that quite a while back (sort of) when they introduced *DATE and 
*YEAR, and enhanced the TIME op code to handle either a 12 or 14 digit target. 
I don't have any inside info, but IBM usually tries very hard to keep from 
breaking existing code.

Pete

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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