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At 05:36 PM 5/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 03:49 PM 5/6/98 -0400, you 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...

>COOL thought.
>We would  need another system value 
>for UDATE
>  *OLD = 6 digits
>  * NEW = 8 digits 

This is not really system value material.

First of all, UDATE is an RPG construct only.

Secondly, changing UDATE, per se, would only make many programs fail.  I'm
in Rochester, and have no manuals, but didn't IBM give us *DATE in an 8
character format?????

Al


Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting, LLC.

(914) 251-9400
(914) 251-9406 (fax)

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