Re: L-date field again -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 10:03 AM 12/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Now, one of these new files will have records updated in an existing RPG
>program.  I tried    C      MOVE UDATE     DATEL
>
>It compiles with a warning message about the LDATE field being ignored.

Booth,

You need to compile RPG3 code with cvtopt(*datetime) in order to use date
fields at all. You will not be able to move UDATE to DATEL unless your date
format exactly matches that of DATEL. You can resort to a data structure or
use XLATE to get the job done, but RPG won't do it for you automatically
like it does with RPG4.

Pete

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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