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No, I'm reasonably sure that TrustedLink does not use upddta. I was
cautioning against using UPDDTA as a test of how effective DDS keywords are.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 8:03 AM Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob

I'm lost somewhere - does TrustedLink use UPDDTA? I don't recall UPDDTA
mentioned as part of this thread.

Your point on recompiling with DDS is well-taken.

Regards
Vern

On 8/11/2023 6:15 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
However, how does that DFT really work? Just because one thing works
with
UPDDTA doesn't necessarily mean it will work that way in an RPG program.
Often the buffer gets initialized totally different. For example, DDS
has
keywords to restrict a value of a field to certain characters, for
example
Y or N. And that may even be enforced in UPDDTA. However if I want to
write an RPG program, or even use a sql insert statement, I can put
whatever I want into that field. You define that with DDL, with a
constraint right there within the DDL and it can't be set to any other
value. Sure you can bolt constraints onto a DDS defined file with
ADDPFCST
but that's not within the DDS and the next person comes along and
recompiles the DDS and your constraints are gone.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 4:09 PM VERNON HAMBERG Owner via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If TrustedLink will let Greg do that, of course. I think I covered that
in
a reply - there is a DFT in DDS, and the docs suggest it will use
current
date or time, if you don't specify it - I think you also should not
specify
a field in the WRITE.


SQL is the ticket here, of course, as you say.


Cheers
Vern


On Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 at 2:37 PM, Rob Berendt <
robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


To: midrange systems technical discussion

Here's the problem: "... an existing database file (DDS)".
Quit that. Use SQL's DDL instead. DDL will allow you to default new
columns to current date, etc. DDS will NOT. Sure, you can add triggers
and stuff but that isn't really DDS, is it?


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 1:57 PM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:

I recently added an ISO date and ISO time field to an existing database
file (DDS). This file is populated by our TrustedLink EDI software
when
we
receive an inbound PO. I guess I had hoped it would capture the
date/time
the record was created. Tli support says the EDI translator won't
update
those "automatically".

Anyone know of a method of getting these fields to update with current
info upon creation? Otherwise, I'll have to update them in my RPG
processing program.

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