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  3. August 2001

Re: dates as parms

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Smith, Mike wrote:

> Is it possible to pass Date fields as parms.
>
> I have a procedure that gets the current date in the selected format.  It
> currently passes the date back as a 10 char field.  I am trying to change it
> to pass back a date field.  However, i am  getting a  'Date, time, or
> timestamp invalid message'.

One of our APIs includes the following function definition:

Dchar2date        PR             1S 0
D datechar                      10A
D dateiso                       10D

Passing dates as parms is no problem.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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