Re: include current date in logical file

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Because every prior message [of those quoted below] had already gone 
askew from what was originally asked, I figured possibly it was a snipe 
directed at those who had hijacked the thread for their own seemingly 
unrelated discussion.  Seen that way, that indecipherable message was 
quite hilarious :-) but hardly productive.

Regards, Chuck

On 24 May 2013 04:43, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What am I looking at here?
>
> Hoteltravelfundotcom  on 05/23/2013 07:00 PM wrote:
>
> > I don't see this create view
> > Commitment control . . . . . . . *NONE
> > Naming convention . . . . . . . *SYS
> > <<SNIP>>
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:27 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, but does one REALLY need to create the view or index which
> > > omits this field in order for it to be updated automatically even
> > > by RPG RLA? Keeping in mind that the original thought was that if
> > > you do not then RLA will slap an initial value in there. One
> > > workaround was to use the initialize with external default.
> > > <<SNIP>>
> > >
> > > Charles Wilt on 05/23/2013 04:01 PM
> > >
> > > >  Seems like a silly request...
> > > >
> > > > It's done so often that IBM has made it even easier to do at
> > > > 6.1  with the ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP  <<SNIP>>
> > > >
> > > >  On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:23 PM, aec  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > A word of caution, I recently discovered if you have a
> > > > > DDS-defined or SQL-defined DATE or TIMESTAMP or TIME field
> > > > > in a file, and insert a record using a field list but do not
> > > > > include that field name in the list for the values, the write
> > > > > will automatically use the current timestamp. <<SNIP>>