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  3. April 2006

Re: prob - storing date in rpg /400

There are many ways to do this, which you can learn in a class on RPG, or programming in general. This is not rocket science.
Assuming Y2K compliancy is not needed (or even include YEAR), one simple way would be to create an array (defined in the "E" specifications) called MON for month or PER for period, with 12 values consisting of: Jan; Feb; Mar; Apr; May; Jun: Jul; Aug; Sep: oct; Nov; Dec.
You then display on the screen the value MON,MM where MON is your array and MM is month extracted from the date which you can do with a data structure at end of input specifications, by overlaying the unpacked date with definition of field MM, or you can also extract it with a move to smaller field (assuming date field is not complicated with having year in there). 


RPG/400--->
  i have a   physical file...  field (suppose date of birth)

  EMPDAT     4P 0      TEXT('EMPLOYEE DATE OD BIRTH')
(length 4 packed with zero decimal places ) 
  EMPNME  20A         TEXT('EMPLOYEE NAME')

   date(EMPDAT) should be stored as DD-MM the data base file but when it is
   displayed on the screen (say screen1). it should be displayed as
  DD -MMM(e.g. 27 - oct)''please tell me how to  do this..
  thank you .....
  :))



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