RE: Using Subdur -- RPG400-L

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:50 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Using Subdur

Adam West wrote:

Also the dates in my file are YYMMDD. I would use the UDATE which is
MMDDYY..

Unless your code needs to be S/36 compatible, don't use UDATE. There
are many, many better ways to do things.

a) Do you really want the job date instead of the system date? The job
date reports the date that your job started (i.e. the date that you
signed on, or the date that a batch job was submitted). The system
date, by contrast, is the current date.

Actually, based on parts of Adam's original post, the job date (UDATE) may be exactly what he wants/needs. The job is submitted on Sunday, but he didn't say what time, but, at any rate, it *may* run past midnight. At which point using the system date would yield incorrect results.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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