Re: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS

["oludare" <oludare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We use 99999999.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Langston" <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS


> I can think of a kludge that would work.  Replace
> all the NULLS with 0001-01-01 (which is *LOVAL
> for *ISO dates which is what we use on our AS/400 to
> be a NULL) and then import it.
>
> You would probably want to copy this to another file
> first though so you don't get invalid dates in your SQL
> database.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Gade_R_Reddy@consecofinance.com wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > Got a question about the field data types..
> > I have Nulls in integer fields and in date fields on the Sql server
> > table. Now i need to export this data to AS400 physical file, but AS400
> > unfortunately doesn't accept the NULLS in integer fields and Zeros in
> > the date fields.
> >
> > Any suggestions how do i go for it.
> >
> > Thanks Guys.
> >
> > Gade.
>
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