RE: Date format in V3R2?

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I looked at  *JOBRUN, but I don't want my software to have the Y2039 bug.
:)  Thanks!

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Gombkötö [mailto:gombkoetoe@ASSOFT.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:06 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Date format in V3R2?
> 
> 
> 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
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> 
> 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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