RE: ISO Date in RPGLE

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure the date isn't a null in the file? I think interactive SQL shows a 
'-' when the date is null but most other programs I've messed with that display 
a null date show '0001-01-01' instead.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: rthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:45 PM
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ISO Date in RPGLE


We use a canned package software – SSA’s PRMS.  They use ISO Dates in
all files.  If a date is not required at the time they put 0001-01-01 in
for the default date.  In ILE I tried to compare the date field with
0001-01-01 and could not make it work.  First how can I see if the date
is equal to 0001-01-01 and second how can I fill the date with
0001-01-01.

Thanks