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Re: Set a date to default value

Am I understanding you correctly?  You have a field defined as 10-column character, initialized to "1980-01-01'"?  And now you wish to update it to something other than "0000000000" using %date()?

So you are looking for something like  %char(%date(yourString))?


On 12/11/2017 1:37 PM, George Smith wrote:
If I have a DDL Statement in an output table for a date like:

EX$DRQJ DATE NOT NULL DEFAULT '1980-01-01'

In my input table I don't have zeros as this particular column how would I code the output statement? I have tried several variations of the output from the %DATE function just short of me coding the default value in the program. I appreciate any assistance.

George R. Smith



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