RE: TimeStamp move

On Tuesday, June 30, 1998 11:30 PM, Pete Hall [SMTP:peteh@inwave.com] 
wrote:
> At 05:34 PM 6/30/98 -0400, VENU YAMAJALA wrote:
> > I have a question - Is there anyway, we can output the 26 char
> > timestamp from
> >an ILE RPG? My requirement is that I have a date in a certain format 
and
> >I want
> >to convert this to *ISO Time Stamp format to send to some other module.
>
> You can move the timestamp to a date field with the appropriate format
> and then if necessary, move that to an alpha field. This would give you
> a result with the appropriate separators already in place. You could
> also move the timestamp to an alpha field (the data structure name) and
> then reference the subfields. What you cannot do is substring the
> timestamp. You can only substring alpha variables.

You can "emulate" substringing a date with the EXTRCT opcode.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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