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(subject was: Re: Date for WrkNetF type MI call) How do I start with this question? Regarding the hex types & sub-types that are used to dump the PDM defaults from the user profiles object (or for any other object for that matter), I think I remember hearing that these types & sub-types, and/or the contents thereof, are subject to change from release to release and that it's risky to write applications using DmpSysObj to get at that info. Or is the risk associated with the format of the spooled output of DmpSysObj? Or both? Maybe the better question to ask is whether using MI to get at this information isolates release dependencies? It may have even been a matter that specific info about PDM defaults has never been documented and, therefore, IBM has implicitly reserved the right to change the format and/or method of how this information can be retrieved. Which (finally!) leads me to ask, what other goodies are lurking on the system that are not accessible through other "normal" means (non-MI solutions), but from DmpSysObj? Where does one look in the MI reference to find this stuff? Dan Bale IT - AS/400 Handleman Company 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 -------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- The magic numbers are hex type and sub-type codes for a library (X'0401') and a distribution index (X'0ED1' - X'0E' is the type for an index, and X'D1' the subtype for this particular kind of index). A list of some of the common types is in the MI Functional Reference manual, and you can see others by dumping objects of various types. The send and arrival dates are at position 57 and 65 in the returned data, respectively. They are in 8-byte "system time-stamp" format (*DTS). You can convert them to a more friendly form using the QWCCVTDT API, described in the Miscellaneous API's manual. Any time you see 8-byte data (the last 2 or 3 bytes may be zero) starting with hex 7 or hex 8, you can suspect it to be a timestamp. (Those starting with 8 are on or after Jan 1, 2000, and those starting with 7 are before.) --Dave +--- | This is the MI Programmers Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MI400@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MI400-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MI400-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: dr2@cssas400.com +---
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