Re: _Rwrite to db with default value -- C400-L

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Thanks! So I guess this means that to accomplish the similar in C would be
to use say QUSLFLD to know that the particular field is a timestamp field
(as C lacks a timestamp datatype) and then initialize it by hand before
writing it. I guess that would work...

2010/9/16 Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>

On 9/16/2010 7:20 AM, Erik Olsson wrote:

Thanks Dennis.
Then I'll probably resort to another solution. The view thing just isn't
maintainable. I'm just wondering how this is really handled under the

covers

of an RPG write for instance... I would think there would be a way to
simulate that.

When an RPG program only writes out some of the fields, the remaining
fields are filled with RPG's default values, not necessarily the default
values for the data base. So a timestamp would be filled with the
low-value 0001-01-01.00.00.00 rather than the current timestamp that
you'd get with a logical view that didn't contain the timestamp.
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