RE: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS

                        My experience is that you can not use 99999999 in a
date field.

                                -----Original Message-----
                                From:   oludare
[mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
                                Sent:   Friday, December 17, 1999 2:37 PM
                                To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
                                Subject:        Re: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS

                                Yes, you can store 99999999 as a date
CCYYMMDD not - or /.

                                Dare.

                                ----- Original Message -----
                                From: "Jim Langston"
<jlangston@conexfreight.com>
                                To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
                                Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 2:02 PM
                                Subject: Re: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS


                                > Can you store 99999999 as a date on the
AS/400?
                                > That is not a valid date 9999-99-99 so I
think you
                                > would get decimal data errors or something
like
                                > that, wouldn't you?
                                >
                                > I could see using *HIVAL (whatever that
is,
                                > 9999-12-31 maybe) but not 99999999.
                                >
                                > Regards,
                                >
                                > Jim Langston
                                >
                                > oludare wrote:
                                >
                                > > We use 99999999.
                                > >
                                >
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