RE: Date issue

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

The date comes into the program as *ISO even if the field is defined as
*USA. But that's not important.
Make sure you've spelled the name the same and that %DATE is supported. I've
sort of lost track as to when the various new built-in functions were
introduced but I think %DATE is a V5R2 thing.

-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:47 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Date issue

I have been trying to port some code from a V5R2 to V5R1 machine and am 
running into some problems with a few date fields.

In the DDS for the display file I have a date field set as follows:

I defined it as an output field 10 characters in length and then changed the

DDS to the following:

ddate L datfmt(*usa)

The DDS compiled fine, in the RPG code I have an eval statement that is 
supposed to assign the system date to the ddate field as follows:

eval ddate = %date

However it keeps saying that the two are not the same type, is there 
something else I need to do with the %date function in order to make it usa 
standard?

Douglas

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