RE: %date not evaluating in DOW as "I" would expect

You may also want to check to see if the program is running optimized, which can also mislead one in debugging.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:00 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: %date not evaluating in DOW as "I" would expect

Okay. I changed mine from packed to zoned and ran it again, it still
didn't enter the loop.

There's more to this problem than meets the eye.

Make sure you check that your source matches your object. I've
frequently had problems like this because someone changed the source
code (and it's not always obvious) so that the source code no longer
matched the object. When debugging, it showed strange things happening
because it showed the new source with the actual execution happening in
the old object.

Bryce Martin wrote:

I am using WDSC 7 with SEP to debug. I have a breakpoint on the statement
and follow it down to the bottome where I increase Running_Date. My
monitor show Running_Date being incremented and To_Date is just as it
always is... its a constant parameter that is passed into this procedure.
My field is 8,0 zoned, not packed. I did see that discrepency in your
code Scott. Not that it should matter I suspect.