Dumb date question

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

V3R7M0 RPG IV

Yes, I know there are now such things as dumb questions, but I think
this one is an exception <g>

I'm writing a new program, that has a display screen that the users are to input
values on, one of these is an As Of Date.  Wanting the users to input the value
as MM/DD/YY I set it up as zoned 6,0 with a date format (Y).  Before I show
the screen I want to initialize the date to today's date.

C                   Eval      ParmAsOf   = *Date

Well, this bombs out, I guess because *Date is a 8,0 field (MMDDCCYY I think).

So, without going into a whole rigamarole of createing a data structure, 
breaking it
down into MM DD CC YY and moving the parts, how do I initialize this field to
todays date?  And I should be creating it as Zones 6,0 right?

Regards,

Jim Langston

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