Re: DATFMT

[Paul Tuohy <tuohyp@xxxxxxx>]

David, the format for ALL date literals is as per the H Spec, which defaults to
*ISO. So, you either put a DATFMT(*ISO) on the H Spec or change the INZ to
(D'13/06/1991').

But it would be a lot neater if it worked as you wished.

HTH

Paul Tuohy


David Prowak wrote:

> Hi,
> I keep getting this compile error:
>
>
>  D  SURCH_DATE     S               D   DATFMT(*JUL) INZ(D'91/164')
>
>                                                                 a
>
>  5 20 a      000140  The value D'91/164' is not a valid *ISO- Date literal.
>
>
> This will compile if I use a control spec to change the default date format
> for the entire module, but I shouldn't have to do that.  I thought that I
> could define the date format for a field specifically, regardless of the
> default date format.
> I'm on V3R2, QDATFMT = MDY.
>
> Dave
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