Re: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS

["oludare" <oludare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you can store 99999999 as a date CCYYMMDD not - or /.

Dare.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Langston" <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS


> Can you store 99999999 as a date on the AS/400?
> That is not a valid date 9999-99-99 so I think you
> would get decimal data errors or something like
> that, wouldn't you?
>
> I could see using *HIVAL (whatever that is,
> 9999-12-31 maybe) but not 99999999.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> oludare wrote:
>
> > We use 99999999.
> >
>
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