RE: dates as parms

["Smith, Mike" <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i too have programs that pass in the date.  My problem(and its probably
something stupid) is i can't get a date to pass back to my calling program.


i've tried making the formats the same in the calling pgm and procedure.  

I checked to make sure that at the point the return is being executed, there
is a valid date in the return variable. 

i don't know what else to check.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:22 PM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: 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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