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Re: Date *HIVAL was Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS

  • Subject: Re: Date *HIVAL was Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS
  • From: "Jim Ackerman" <jackerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:52:26 -0500
  • Organization: CBSI
I am new to this list, and subscribed just to hear the discussion regarding this topic.  We are having problems with 'null' dates being set to '0001-01-01' by RPGLE and being interpreted through odbc applications as 01/01/1901.
 
Is there no way to store a true null value in DB2/400?
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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Date *HIVAL was Urgent!!! NULLS & ZEROS

On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 02:08:39PM -0600, Scott Klement wrote:
> Sometimes the values of all zeros, or all nines are used as "special
> values" which necessary in some applications -- but not possible with
> the date data type.  I don't like using 0001-01-01 or 9999-12-31 as
> special values for the simple reason that they ARE valid dates!!  I
> don't WANT my special values to be valid dates!

One might argue that special values should be represented out of
band--either with NULLs or with other fields in the record.
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