Re: Question on SQL Table (DDL) with date and time fields

Doug,

Recently Joe Pluta wrote a post here with the concept of
using either a view or a DDS LF that did not include the PF
date and time fields. If this LF was used for adding
records, the current time and date would go into the PF.


Regards,

Luis
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date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:04:42 -0500
from: Doug Palme <D>
subject: Re: Question on SQL Table (DDL) with date and
time fields

Rob,
I just spent four hours chasing that down :) and I will
be slowly getting
rid of the writes and changing it out with the
insert......but I am
probably going to upset a few more people in doing so
LOL......


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r
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RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
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05/22/2008 01:59 PM
Subject:
Re: Question on SQL Table (DDL) with date and time fields



The problem is that UPDATE, in rpgle, supports %fields.
However WRITE
does not. Therefore you have to write out the whole
buffer. And, if you
never initialized those fields it will write out low
values.
Dump WRITE, adopt SQL's INSERT instead.
I suppose you could create a DCR that WRITE support
%fields.

https://www-912.ibm.com/r_dir/ReqDesChange.nsf/Request_for_Design_Change?OpenForm

Another option is:
phdate=%date();
phtime=%time();
write record;

Rob Berendt
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Doug Palme <DP>
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Here is what I added to the DDL:

0002.00 PHDATE DATE WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE,
0003.00 PHTIME TIME WITH DEFAULT CURRENT TIME,
....

When using DBU it works perfectly....however, when a
program writes a
record those fields end up with a default date of
00001-01-01 and a
default time of 00.00.00......obviously I am doing
something wrong.....





From:
R Bruce Hoffman <@>
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Date:
05/22/2008 10:07 AM
Subject:
Re: Question on SQL Table (DDL) with date and time fields



create table ... ( .... date with default current date
... )

Only defaults on insert when the field is not specified
in the insert
list. Updates leave it unaffected.

Doug Palme wrote:

is there a way to auto populate a date / time field

with the current
date

and time without actually having code to do it? IE: Is

there a default

setting within the DDL spec that would cause the date

field to be
filled?

Although as I think about this, that might be a problem

on subsequent

updates......

Luis Rodriguez

IBM Certified Systems Expert
eServer i5 iSeries Technical Solutions