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I have defined a new file using ddl. I have added a time stamp field, defined as data type timestamp, default value current time stamp via ops nav.

I wrote an RPG program to move data from the old file format to the new empty file. all the time stamps are 0001-01-01-00.00.00.000000 .
In the program, I never referenced the timestamp field.


I thought sql and ddl was supposed to put data into that field for me, no matter how I wrote the record (RPG, SQL, etc). But my results show that apparently I must initialize the fields, either in D specs or in the calcs.

This isn't working the way I thought it would work.

---Dale



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