RE: Dates in POI Sql2Xls

why multiply???
C        *ISO       MOVE       PMHIRED                 CPHIRED 

Should be all you need....


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob O.
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:29 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Dates in POI Sql2Xls


I tried that but I know I wasn't doing it right.  I had a date field (type 
"L") defined in my physical file.  When I tried doing a move into the field,

I kept coming up with an "invalid date or time stamp" message.  I guess I 
just don't know the correct way to move the value into the date field.  I 
tried sever different ways but to no avail...

My RPG program pulls in the hire date from an employee file.  This field is 
defined as 8/0 numeric.  My problem arises when I multiply this number by 
10000.0001 to reverse it from yyyy/mm/dd to mm/dd/yyyy and move it into the 
date field

>From Physical file DDS:
A            CPHIRED         L          DATFMT(*MDY) COLHDG('HIRE DATE')

I was doing something like this (but have since removed the code from the 
program):

C        PMHIRED   MULT       10000.0001             PMHIRED   <-- NUMERIC 
(8/0)
C        *MDY       MOVE       PMHIRED                 CPHIRED    <-- 
DEFINED WITH DATA TYPE "L"
 

               IN THE PHYSICAL FILE ON ISERIES

Is this what I should be doing?









>From: "Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: Dates in POI Sql2Xls
>Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:40:36 -0500
>
>Bob,
>
>I've only ever used POI from Java but have you tried using an actual date 
>data type to store the date? I know that storing dates works `cause I've 
>done it before. You may want to take a look at the Javadoc for the method 
>you're trying to call and make sure that you're passing an appropriate 
>object type into it.
>
>Matt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob O. [mailto:otis_the_cat@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:17 AM
>To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Dates in POI Sql2Xls
>
>
>    I have one more issue with the POI sql2xls programs.
>
>    I was trying to save an employee's hire date into a date data type 
>field
>    in a physical file and then move that date into the excel sheet the POI
>    program creates.  It doesn't seem to do what I want it to do (of 
>course).
>
>    Is my issue with the date field in the physical file?  If so, how 
>should I
>    store the date in the physical file so the POI program can easily 
>convert
>    it to a date in the spreadsheet?  When I store it in a plain old 8/0
>    numeric field, it just moves the text to the cell instead of formatting

>as
>    a date.
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