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The internal format, as stored below MI, is a 4-byte integer representing a
Scaliger value for the date. When using above MI interfaces, such as the i5/OS
commands DSPFFD and DSPPFM or above MI database operations such as
reading a record, you generally see a formatted 10-character date value
representing the "physical" buffer layout. The "physical" record you are seeing
is an above MI view of the world. SQL can bypass this mapping of internal
to "physical" using functions such as HEX. But actually stored on disk, in what
you think of as a file, is a 4-byte integer value.
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