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On 19/10/2005, at 6:43 AM, Chris Payne wrote:
One of my coworkers is trying to get a handle on API's and he thinks he can use the INTC opcode in a program, but he can't find an example.
INCT is not an API no is it an opcode. It is an MI instruction (exposed via an ILE built-in and also as a procedure). As such it is hardly the first choice for someone "trying to get a handle" on APIs.
If this person "thinks" they have a use for INCT then they can accomplish the same result with a lot less effort by using the RPG IV support for Date/Time/Timestamp operations. Just use ADDDUR instead.
All of the MI Date/Time/Timestamp instructions require the caller to build a fairly complex set of structures describing the Date/Time/Timestamp formats for each operand. The RPG op-codes do this automatically.
Check the MI400-L list for a very recent discussion (and corresponding evidence of difficulty, frustration, and confusion) about using just one of these MI instructions (CDD).
So yes you can use INCT from RPG IV but you really wouldn't want to. Regards, Simon Coulter. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FlyByNight Software AS/400 Technical Specialists http://www.flybynight.com.au/ Phone: +61 3 9419 0175 Mobile: +61 0411 091 400 /"\ Fax: +61 3 9419 0175 \ / X ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail / \ --------------------------------------------------------------------
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