Re: Date data type question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Loyd Goodbar wrote:
>I'm reengineering an application in RPG/IV, and I am using date data
>types extensively. A big problem I'm having is processing birth dates.
>Many people I'm processing have birth dates before 1940, so I get the
>error "The year portion of a Date or Timestamp value is not in the range
>1940 to 2039." Is there anything I can do to use these dates with the
>date data type or must I still use a numeric format? Running V3R7.

Lose those 2 digits years.  Use DATFMT(*ISO).

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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