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Re: Transaction date format in journal entry


On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:58 AM, G Armour wrote:

Question: From which job is the DATFMT attribute used? #1, The job that
performed the transaction that created the journal entry? Or #2, the job
that the RCVJRNE/RTVJRNE runs from? I'm guessing #1. In which case I
can't ever really be sure of the format of the date.

The date in the journal itself is most likely an 8-byte MI timestamp.

The date in the outfile is in the data format of the requesting job. How else could you process it reliably?

Rochester have guidelines for outfiles that should be followed by their developers. As I recall one of those was that dates should be either in the date format of the requesting job or in CYYMMDD format. The text description of the field (visible via DSPPFFD) should tell you which. Since even Rochester's developers make mistakes an easy way to verify is to change the date format of your job, build the outfile, and check the output.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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