Re: SDA, Subfiles, and date fields

Douglas,

I just make occasional reference to the DDS reference manual for displays
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/rzakc/rza
kcmst.pdf) but you can use the SDA reference manual which IBM sort of
stopped publishing with V5R1
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0926040.pdf).

For coding a date on a display use the L data type with the DATFMT keyword.
Before the L data type was supported dates were coded as numeric fields with
the EDTWRD keyword.

Hope this helps.

Paul

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"Douglas W. Palme"
<dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am having trouble creating date fields for subfiles with SDA, I have
been
> searching the iseries website looking for an in-depth manual on SDA but
> haven't found anything.
>
> does anyone have any suggestions or know where I can find some better
> information?
>
> I code most of my physical files as date fields with the format as *USA
> and '/' as the seperator, but when it comes to using SDA it seems to lack
a
> formatting ability for dates.
>
> Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Douglas
>
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