RE: Date Fields in RPG IV

["Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What's this?!?!?!?!   Did you really say that DATES will be usable on
display & printer files?

When?  Via PTF?  Tell us more, please!!!!!

Dave

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>From:  Jon Paris - jonp@vnet.ibm.com - AS/400
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>Sent:  Wednesday, September 10, 1997 9:10 AM
>To:    midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject:       Date Fields in RPG IV
>
>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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