RE: ISQL returns *ISO dates in *MDY format

Press F13 from ISQL.  Options for how ISQL returns information is under
option #1.  That has a *MDY on my box.

Bill Brosch
Swift Technologies

e-mail: bbrosch@swiftorder.com
web site:       http://www.swiftorder.com
phone:  1-847-289-8339
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-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:14 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: ISQL returns *ISO dates in *MDY format


My 4.4.0 ISQL returns dates to me in *MDY format despite the job's
DATFMT.
This is causing some confusion among some auditors who want to see 4
digit
years like we told them we're using.

ISQL seems to disregard both the job date format and the DATFMT
parameter on
STRSQL.  It returns dates like 01/18/00 no matter what the date format
is.
I suspect it uses QDATFMT but I can't change the date format on my
machine
to test it out.

QMQRY respects the job date format (sort of) - it uses the full 4 digit
CCYY
instead of the expected YY, but that's okay.

Timestamp fields are always displayed in timestamp format
CCYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.millis

I could not find any PTF's or APARs on this; the closest being SF54193 -
CHAR(date) uses job format instead of SQL date format.  

Does anyone with a system QDATFMT other than MDY see *ISO dates in their
QDATFMT?

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
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 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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