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A date in a packed 8/0 field with the value 112011 would always be invalid.
I think you are just seeing it wrong. If you display with SQL or Query and
it is correct then the value must be correct in the database. iDate returns
a null if you pass it date in the format.

SELECT iDate(Cast(112011 As Decimal(8,0)),'*MDCCYY') FROM
SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1

returns null.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan,

But that would only work in the case of a date less than 10/1/xxxx
wouldn't it? I need it to work in BOTH cases.

Does SQL have any date functions that I can convert the numeric to a
date, then strip out the year?

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
iDate makes that simple which is what I recommend.(What happens tommorrow
if
you need the month and year) or you can use the RIGHT and CHAR functions
to
get out the year.

Select DIGITS(RIGHT(CHAR(field80),4))

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Clarification (which I tried to do before).

Date is stored 8,0P. Format is MMDDCCYY

Jan 1, 2011 is stored as

1012011

Oct 10, 2011 is stored as

10102011

Does this help? :)
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