RE: Date Field Printing

[John Enzien <jenzien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to disagree with this.  I have used null capable date fields and have
had no problems.  I am not sure at which release they were supported.  We
are on V4R3.  There is a good article in NEWS/400 in the March, 1999 issue
that explains how to use null capable date data type fields.  Name of the
article is "Boost Your Date Handling with Null-Capable Date Fields.  There
is online access to it but you need to be a subscriber.
Hope this helps
John Enzien
Fairpoint Communications

                                
                                There is actually no *NULL value for any
field, it is something
                                you can check for to see if the value should
be considered null, but
                                the field will always contain some data
(even though it may be bad
                                data, as in decimal data errors for
numeric).

                                Also, date fields are not yet *NULL capable.
So we don't even
                                have something we can check to see if it's
null or not.  But, regardless,
                                checking for *LOVAL is exactly the same as
checking for *NULL
                                as far as I can tell, as long as *LOVAL is
not an allowable entry.

                                I have not actually used NULLs in RPG
myself, but this is how I've
                                heard they work.  Please correct me if I am
wrong.

                                Regards,

                                Jim Langston

                                Rob Berendt wrote:

                                > I question 'the absence of a date is
stored as 0001-01-01'.  Isn't
                                > it stored as *null instead?  Does *null
print this way?  Or is this
                                > the effort of picking some arbitrary date
to indicate the lack thereof?
                                >
                                
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