RE: Allow *ZERO in a date (and timestamp) field? IBM?

Why not use the "default" date of "0001-01-01" as your zero date?
Loyd

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From: William A.(Tony) Corbett [mailto:corbett@ASRESOURCES.COM]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 8:06 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange. com
Subject: Allow *ZERO in a date (and timestamp) field? IBM?


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Hi all (and IBMers),

If the "date field restrictions" could be eased up to allow only valid dates
(as it is now) OR zero in a date field, this would help us a lot.

I am currently having to using a packed field to store dates on the db,
primarily due to this restriction.  Oftentimes, I need to allow a zero in a
date field, and current restrictions will not allow this.

I realize this is probably implemented at the database-level, but this would
seem to be a valuable modification to this "rule" and seems possible.

JMO

Thanks for listening.

AS/Resources, Inc.
William A.(Tony) Corbett
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Developer http://www.asresources.com
corbett@asresources.com 770-587-4812 (office) 678-935-5006 (mobile)
fax:  404-663-4737


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