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  3. October 2009

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

Something is going on that is not as expected. My experiences with IBM stuff is that generally one is better off not be redundant in the coding. Belt or suspenders, yes; belt & suspenders, never. The default for %date() is *iso, so why declare it an extra time?

Does this make sense? No, not at all. :) However nothing else has so far, either.




Scott Klement wrote:
What are you suggesting, Booth? That his zoned decimal date isn't really in YYYYMMDD format? He says it contains 20091016 -- if it's not in YYYYMMDD format, wouldn't that cause the program to generate an exception?

I guess I don't follow your logic, Booth.

Booth Martin wrote:
I've been wondering if he could just leave the *iso parm off the %date(bif) (unless he has set a DATFMT keyword) and see if that works as he expects?


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