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Holden Tommy wrote:
> 
> sounds reasonable that if the date field is defined with a date format that
> the RPG compiler SHOULD keep the date format...
> 
> maybe a DCR might help???  FWIW, I can generally deal with those type
> scenarios & quirks ok but on a bad day....they frustrate me immensely!!!
> 

This is the same external format vs internal format thing that you get
with fields that are zoned in the database and packed in the program. 
It's behaving that way because RPG allows you to have the fields in
different files with different formats, so it uses a standard default
format for the internal fields.

The best way around it is to define an externally-described data
structure with the fields in the file.  The ext-desc DS will get the
fields exactly the way they are in the file.

For the date thing, you could put DATFMT(*YMD) in the H spec, and then
the dates would default to *YMD instead of *ISO.


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