Re: UDATE

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean,

At 08:27 PM 10/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Vernon,
>
>In a message dated 97-10-17 18:55:37 EDT, you write:
>
>> Has anyone heard of a situation, in RPG, where UDATE could be blanks?
>
>No, have you encountered this??!!  If so, what OS release?  We've had to
>write so snazzy add-ons to our date API's to make sure that the job date
>changes after midnight for 2nd shift, but haven't had a problem w/UDATE other
>than that...

The version is v3r2, but I'm really just fishing to see if this is even
possible. We have a huge monolithic (50 file spec :^( would you believe)
program that writes dates derived from UDATE into 3 2-byte fields for
YY,MM,DD. We recently had 4 records written with these fields blank. We've
looked a bit, but it doesn't seem that the program would've missed this.
But I'm going to be sure we go back and make sure. Man, it's uuuuugly code.

As you know, things like this should not happen, but I've been shoulded on
too many times!

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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