RE: Year 2000

On Saturday, June 07, 1997 7:58 PM, Charlie Massoglia 
[SMTP:cmassoglia@voyager.net] wrote:
> >Plus, RPGIII doesn't like native date
> >fields anyway, so the big payoff wouldn't be there unless you were 
moving
> >to RPG IV at the same time.
> >
> I do not understand why there is a problem using a file with a date data
> type field in RPG III.  As long as you compile the program CVTOPT(*DATE),
> the date, time, and timestamp fields are made available to the program as
> character fields.  There is no problem printing or displaying the dates.
> You just have to be VERY careful if you update them, insuring the 
contents
> of the character field EXACTLY match the format specified in the DDS.

I think the "have to be VERY careful if you update them" is the key phrase. 
Granted reading character data and moving it to a display file is easy. But 
some of the other points people on this list have made, particularly the 
one about there not being a "null" date value of 0 or similar, really ca  
uses trouble. If you have 0 for a date field, you can't move it to a DATE 
datatype unless you change your logic.



Bob Cozzi
Bob@rpgdev.net
http://www.rpgdev.net


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