Re: Date format in V3R2?

[Anton Gombkötö <gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad,

maybe *JOBRUN solves your problem? (Just checked it, compiling to 
TGTRLS(V3R2M0) works)

So you would just

*JOBRUN      TEST(D)      OperDate

and

*JOBRUN MOVE       OperDate     RealDateField

Unfortunately, this can handle only 6 digits, not 8.

Maybe IBM didn't want us to make 8-digit date-entry fields and keep the 
6-digit ones? I do not understand why; it would be such a smart cutie.

As one doesn't know where the year is (left or right?); it's not simple to 
save the century and apply it to the real date field.

So we ended up with a function for checking dates that calls a module that 
does a RTVJOBA DATFMT(&DATFMT) to know in what date format the user was 
trying a date to key in.



Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö

Avenum Technologie GmbH
Wien - Mattsee - Stuttgart
e-mail Office   :       mailto:Anton.Gombkoetoe@avenum.com
Homepage        :       http://www.avenum.com

Lest das Redbook / read the redbook "Who knew you could do that with RPG?":
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html

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