Re: TimeStamp Problem -- MIDRANGE-L

I _think_ it was because at the time that the functionality was added to RPG the system only provided 3 digits.

Not sure why it has not been updated but often if the compiler folks do stuff like that then very soon someone is screaming because the 3 digit accuracy was a “feature” that they rely on. Yes - really - I once was ordered to pull a fix from the COBOL compiler because GM had built an application that relied on it not working properly!

Jon Paris

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On Apr 16, 2015, at 5:43 PM, broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Yes. RPG. Just didn't realize until today that
it was a known limitation and I've been doing
this for some 30 years.
Just boggles the mind that the developers
would do that. Why? What possible limitation
would keep them from doing it right?

Bill

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From: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/16/2015 04:38 PM
Subject: RE: TimeStamp Problem
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I assume you're doing something in RPG. DB2 goes out to all 6, but RPG
only goes out 3.

I have no idea why.

-----Original Message-----
From: broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 4:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: TimeStamp Problem

All right. I'm going to ask one of those "stupid" questions.

Why does the time stamp only use the first 3 positions of the millisecond?
We just tried to find unique records for a file based on time stamp and
got several results returned all with the last 3 positions 0. In fact, all
our files are like that.

Is this by design? Are we doing something wrong when we write them out?

Bill Roehmer

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