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Remember that date formats do not affect the internal representation of date variables. (Date variables/fields are always stored as a binary value.) The eight standard date formats, (e.g. *DMY, *ISO) indicate how a date variable should be presented for external interpretation.

That said, additional formats, (e.g. *LONGJUL and *CYMD) recognise that date values may be stored in character or numeric variables. These additional formats allow such values to be converted from character/numeric variables to full date variables - and vice versa.

In other words, *CYMD is provided for conversion to/from date variables, (using %DATE, %INT, etc.) - not for presentation.

Hope this helps.

Brian.

On 07/09/2018 16:31, Jeff Crosby wrote:
I need to send a file to a vendor asking for the date (numeric, not a date
data type) in the form CYYMMDD where the "C" is 0 for the 1900's and 1 for
the 2000's. Fair enough.

I figured the easiest was to start with a date data type in the form *CYMD
then make it numeric. I see reference in the RPG documentation on date
data types to *CYMD, but you can't define a date with that format.

Is that right or am I missing something?

Thanks.



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