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>Is it possible to have RPG output blanks or all zeroes >to a date field defined as "L *ISO" in the physical >file DDS source? Matt gave the quick answer, so I'll chip in the longer answer. You can't have all zeroes in a date field because 0000-00-00 is not a valid date. It's roughly equivalent to asking if you can store characters like "NONUM" in a packed numeric field. The typical way other databases get around this problem is to use the NULL flag. If there's a value in the date field, then make the field NOT NULL. If there's no date, make it NULL. Unfortunately, you STILL have to put a valid date in the date field in addition to setting the NULL flag. So, the typical workaround is to use a date that can never occur in your real data: a special value like 0001-01-01. This is not the optimum way to do things, but in the world of compromises... --buck
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