Date formatting

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are in the final stages of testing some converted programs

RPG/II -> RPGLE

We would like to use CMPPFM on the spool files and have setup programs
to cpysplf & all that

The problem we are having is that the old system outputs a date a little
differently than the new system.

old :  7/31/99
new : 07/31/99

of course CMPPFM sees this as a changed record.

The typical output spec in the new program is 

O .......... DATE1   50D*MDY

is there a way to output a Date Type in *mdy & drop the leading zero?  I
know how to move to a 6 digit & use an edit code but there are hundreds
of programs involved and many have 2 or 3 dates to be output.

TIA

John Hall
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