Re: UDATE moving to 8 digits???

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Been a LONG day Neil - you made me laugh, thanks !

Neil Palmer wrote:

> Al has just confirmed what we've long suspected - there are no AS/400
> manuals in Rochester !    :-)
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Al Barsa Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 3:11 AM
> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:      Re: UDATE moving to 8 digits???
> >
> > At 05:36 PM 5/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >At 03:49 PM 5/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >>One of the folks here was told by a software vendor that IBM had
> > plans to
> > >>change UDATE from 6,0 to 8,0.  Has anybody else heard of this?  In
> > my
> > >>infinite wisdom (snort) I dismissed this as preposterous, but I
> > thought
> > >>I'd check on the off chance...
> >
> > >COOL thought.
> > >We would  need another system value
> > >for UDATE
> > >  *OLD = 6 digits
> > >  * NEW = 8 digits
> >
> > This is not really system value material.
> >
> > First of all, UDATE is an RPG construct only.
> >
> > Secondly, changing UDATE, per se, would only make many programs fail.
> > I'm
> > in Rochester, and have no manuals, but didn't IBM give us *DATE in an
> > 8
> > character format?????
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > Al Barsa, Jr.
> > Barsa Consulting, LLC.
> >
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