RE: Dumb date question

[booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

It's not really that simple; we don't define a date field, ParmAsOf 
already knows what it is - it is a date field and as such has no 
program-defined format.  There has been a lot of discussion about what 
date fields look like on the inside, but it's insides aren't available for 
casual review. 

In this example, either "Today" is not a date field or the first piece of 
coding is redundant.  I had understood the question was for ParmAsOf to be 
a mmddyy field (with or without a separator).  But if ParmAsOf is really a 
date field then I would still choose the line of code 

   C                  Time                         ParmAsOf

instead of the INZ solution because INZ happens at initialization time 
which could have been yesterday or whenever the job started, not when this 
line of code is executed. 

Which raises a further question:  If we use   INZ(*SYS) in a job that runs 
for three weeks and the we use the Opcode "Clear" do we get the original 
date or the current date?


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Jon Erickson <jerickson@800.com>
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Yes, but basically, you define the format of the date field either 
implicitly by H-spec or data area or explicity via DATFMT keyword and 
(*MDY, *YMD, *USA, *ISO, Etc.) as the parameter.
The move opcode using the *MDY in factor 1 tells what format the field 
(TODAY) in factor 2 is.  The date field ParmAsOf can be of any date 
format, I'd hazard to guess *ISO, which is the default.
Hth, 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: booth@martinvt.com [mailto:booth@martinvt.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:52 PM 
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com 
Subject: Re: Dumb date question 

This gets sooo confusing. 
I don't understand how this works Jon.  If you define ParmAsOf as a date 
field, can it be a *MDY field too? 
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Booth Martin 
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Jon.Paris@hal.it 
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 > C                    TIME                TODAY 
 > C       *MDY         MOVE     TODAY      ParmAsOf 
 > I love date fields. 
Mee too - but this is even nicer (V3R7 and later) 
 D ParmAsOf       S             D   Inz(*Sys)  or Inz(*Job)

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