RE: When is date field (L) updated?

Or if you want to use the Job's Date, try this:
Your_Date_Field = %Date(*date);


Chris Hiebert
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Dale,
Try this:
Your_Date_Field = %Date();

That will set it to the current system date.



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:49 AM, dale janus
<dalejanus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Thanks to everyone who replied to help me out.

If I'm going to access in RPG, I must set the date myself.

If I want DB2 to set the date, it cannot be defined in the program, so

use a logical file where the date is not defined.

Or in this particular instance, I'm just going to move today's date to

the field. (Hmmm, can I EVAL the date? Not if I use UDATE. I haven't

tried *DATE) This part I can handle.

Now I know a little more how this stuff works. It seems like it's all

or nothing.

We are planning to upgrade to V7 this summer. I am looking forward to

playing around with SQL within CL to replace OPNQRYF. That will help

me get my feet wet in the SQL waters.

---Dale


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