RE: Date problem

Steve, 

A review of the SUBDUR opcode (in the ILE RPG Reference) shows 
"Date/Time/Timestamp" as the only datatype that can be used.  You must first 
convert the numeric date into a temp date field, then perform your subdur...  
This code should work for all releases.  (In newer releases, the %bifs for date 
conversion are much friendlier, so this could be done in an expression 
statement....)

Dact_Date         s               d
Dmy_Date          s               d

c     *YMD          Move      yymmdd        my_Date
c     my_Date       Subdur    60:*Days      act_Date

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



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Subject: Date problem


HI I have to compare 2 dates. From the file the format is 6 00 S, yymmdd.

I need to comopare this date to the current date, less 60 days. So I take
the system date, and I want to subtract 60 days from it. I put the system
date into a field yymmdd.

I set my result field as:

Dact_Date         s               d

then :

 c     yymmdd        Subdur    60:*Days      act_Date

but I am getting an error in compile:

RNF7052 30      1 Factor 1 and Factor 2 are not the same type; the
                  specification is ignored.

which is correct, in fact, act_date is considered as:

          ACT_DATE          D(10*USA/)

my question is, how to have act_date be the same type as a simple numeric
field?

Thanks,
Steve