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  3. April 2015

Re: TimeStamp Problem

Too funny, Rob!

I was aware that timestamp, time, and date data types have a compressed
internal representation, but I figured that the timestamp data type, prior
to v7r2, didn't already have space for 12 precision digits. Again, it was
just a question out of curiosity.

- Dan

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:30 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Keeping in mind that the space shown in DSPPFM is not really how much
space is taken up by date, time, timestamp columns and that IBM wrote
DSPPFM and can then get it to format the output anyway they want to. I
think they show it expanded just to ease those using earlier flavors of
RPG and stuff.
...
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-9406-4319-35GB-DISK-DRIVE-FOR-AS400-z7-/351114316190?pt=US_Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item51c00b499e>
So those extra 2 bytes just ate up about $0.000262 amount of disk space. I
can see where you may need to fill a room full of executives and debate on
this for a few hours before spending that amount.

Rob Berendt


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