Re: Source Dates

[dennis.e.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

The SRCDAT is now and has always been a numeric field of six bytes.  There 
is no date-type logic associated with it.

In SQL, you could use a date function to convert this to a date-type 
field, and you'd be all set.  But I cannot see how this might have worked 
in the past. 
"Curiouser and curiouser," cried Alice.

Dennis E. Lovelady







Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com>
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Hi, Bill

On v5r1, I don't get the many records I have for 970531 (that we want to 
see), or the 1 record for 030109 (that we don't) - only those that have 
000000. Same at v3r7 - no records presented for 1997 or 1999, both of 
which 
are present in the source file.

HTH

Vern

At 12:45 PM 1/9/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > Bill, I'm at V5R1. It sorted by the raw numeric value, no
> > consideration of century, so 97/05/31 preceded 03/01/09. I also tried
> > it at V3R7, and it behaved the same way - no regard for century.
>
>Vern, I appreciate you trying that out.  What happens if you were to:
>Select * from qrpgsrc where srcdat<021231 ?
>