Re: SDA, Subfiles, and date fields -- RPG400-L

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Douglas W. Palme wrote:


I am having trouble creating date fields for subfiles with SDA, I have been
searching the iseries website looking for an in-depth manual on SDA but
haven't found anything.

SDA (Screen Design Aid) is part of the Application Development ToolSet (ADTS). You can find the manual for it in the Information Center under:

  Programming -> ADTS -> ADTS for AS/400: Screen Design Aid

I doubt that this manual will answer your question, unfortunately. I don't think SDA understands the date data type. (The display file will understand it, but SDA does not.)

IBM (incorrectly) assumes that nobody who uses modern techniques like date fields would use an old editor like SDA. They feel that it makes no sense to continue to enhance SDA, but instead they concentrate on it's replacements in WDSc and CODE/400.

does anyone have any suggestions or know where I can find some better
information?

I code most of my physical files as date fields with the format as *USA
and '/' as the seperator, but when it comes to using SDA it seems to lack a
formatting ability for dates.

If you want to continue to use green screen tools, you can use SDA to design your display and put a "10A" field where you want the date to appear.

Then, later, edit the DDS source with SEU and change the field to be data type L, and DATFMT(*USA). Re-compile the display with the CRTDSPF command.

Or, upgrade to use WDSc and stop using SDA.

(Though, personally I prefer SDA as well)

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