Date Fields in RPG IV

["Jon Paris - jonp@xxxxxxxxxxxx - AS/400 AD" <jonp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi wrote:

(P.S. Congratulations on being elected to the board of COMMON Bob! - or should
that be commiserations ;-)

 >I realize that the Toronto lab is not responsible for the DATE problem.
 >But over the years, Rochester has "fixed" a lot of things that Toronto
 >should  have corrected. Since Toronto is doing a lot of great things
 >lately, perhaps it's time for pay back. <g>

I don't recall anything that Rochester "fixed" for us so you'll have to
enlighten me on that one of these days. However, we are doing some work
on the parts of the date ops that we can affect (i.e. those directly
related to the RPG IV date ops etc.) and I've been hearing good things
out of Rochester with regard to performance improvements down at the
microcode level that improve the performance. Not to mention the fact
that they will at last be usable on display files etc.

That said - I'm with John Carr on this one - other than in exceptional
circumstances - dates pay for any performance penalty in improved ease
of use both at the programmers and at the end-user level. You never
have to worry about a bad date in anything that you process - if it
was bad it would never have made it into the database!


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