Re: Free form date conversion

Hello Birgitta,

thanks for the info.
The reason I need the date to be in *JOB format is
that it will be passed within a command string that
uses *DATE parameters which require the date to be in
*JOB format.

Actually I think I found the solution by searching the
ILE manual for *JOBRUN.  Apparantly the
%CHARACTER/%CHAR BIF will accept a date field AND a
value of *JOBRUN as in the following example:

chardate = %char( datefield : *JOBRUN ) ;

thanks!
--- BrgttHsr@aol.com wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> if you use %date, the result field must be a date
> field.
> Using a datastructure you could overlay the date
> field through an
> alphanumeric field.
>
> Parameter 2 in %Date describes the date format of
> parameter 1. It only can be
> used, if you want to convert an alphanumeric or
> numeric field to a date
> field, otherwise the system knows the date format.
>
> I don't know how to use *JOBRUN without MOVE. In
> DatFmt() in D-Specs it can
> not be specified.
> Why do you need Job's Date Format? Wouldn't it be
> better to use *ISO which is
> the default value for date fields?
>
> Birgitta Hauser
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