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If I recall correctly, Database support for Date, Time, and Timestamp came out in V2R1.1. And, while Barbara would be the final authority, I believe RPG support for these datatypes was in the initial ILE release.
Bruce Vining
qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
rob wrote:
I went to a panel on Y2K preparation presented by one company that went
through it and how they changed all their dates to numeric packed CYMD.
They looked exhausted. So, I asked them "Are you going to go through this
again when the users all want the dates in a format that they can query?"
Heh. Probably not a popular question with them.
Waaay back, I wrote a Roman-numeral calculator in Fortran as an
exercise in college. Just because it can be done is not a good
enough reason to do it in production code.
You're definitely on target that a true date field is the way to go.
It's not like they haven't been around for a while. Oldest RPG
manual I have nowadays is V4R3 February 1998 and four-digit years
are shown without change-marks. (External and internal
representations differ, of course.) Similarly, my V4R2 DDS manual
has the Date data type without change-marks; the dates are not
clearly marked -- V4R2 was obviously earlier.
So even if someone was using obsolete manuals for whatever reason,
there's a good chance that the info is available.
Tom Liotta
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