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That will make the format into mm-dd-yyyy, as you indicated, Booth.

Now if this is embedded in RPG, you can use this -

set :MDYYDATE = replace( char(current date,usa),'/','-')

Then you don't need the SELECT from the file.

There's also the VALUES statement that lets you set a single row of values, as I recall.

HTH
Vern

On 12/31/2015 1:57 PM, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
SELECT replace( char(current date,usa),'/','-') FROM
SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1
Maybe?




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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:48 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Embedded SQL formatting dates

Birgitta tantalized me a bit ago. SQL does so much so well.

So far I have not found a way to set the output format for a date. This
does not work:

exec sql select date(:WRKDAT)
into :MDYYDATE "mm-dd-yyyy" from SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1;

(As an aside, it seems to need SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1. At least I am #1, eh?

Or does that mean something else?)
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