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Re: To Date or Not to Date... that is the question

On 19/12/2007, Wilt, Charles <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, the human readable is not stored in the DB. ( except in the case of the
program describe file. RPG handles dates as 10 character fields. You can see
this in procedure calls with date parameters.)

Remember, i5 OS is object based, and what are a couple key points about
objects? Abstraction and information hiding; thus, the input/output to/from the
DB for a date field are 10-char. But internally, the data is converted and stored
as an integer.

DSPFFD isn't really lying. From outside the object, 10-char is the format you
see for I/O.

The only way to really see the internal format would be DMPOBJ.

Thanks for the explanation, Charles. The problem with DMPOBJ is that I
can't find clear text data I know to be in the database in the spooled
output. I don't see therefore how I can use it to identify my
internally formatted dates.


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