Re: Writing a Date field to an externally described file

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary

What is the content of line 2000004 of the compile listing - I suspect 
it is a field in a file - maybe the 2nd file of your F-specs.

Vern

On 1/6/2015 10:39 AM, Gary Kuznitz wrote:
> I have a Date field described in a program as:
>   D DTEOFHIRE       S               D   INZ DatFmt(*USA)
>
> In the compile it shows it created as:
>   DTEOFHIRE         D(10*USA/)
>
> In the output it is described as:
>   O                       DTEOFHIRE     D
> NOTE: I've tried it with and without the edit code of D
>   In the externally described file it is:
>   A            DTEOFHIRE       L         TEXT('Employment Date')
>   A                                      COLHDG('Employment' +
>   A                                             'Date' )
>   
> When I compile the program I get this error:
>   *RNF7606 20       2000004  The Data-Format entry is A or N but field DTEOFHIRE is
> not of type character or indicator.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Running V5R3
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gary