RE: Year 2000

[Bob Cozzi <web5028f@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

I am no expert, but I believe the reason they do not convert to real AS/400 
date fields is because they want to work with your existing code. I f you, 
for example, have a date routine that calculates the number of work days 
for a give period, that routine will continue to work (hopefully) after the 
conversion. If a tool changed the data type to a date field, that routine 
could need some reworking.

As I said, I don't know for sure what the reasoning is. I suppose a tool 
could be smart enough to move a date field to a numeric field and then back 
again, but that does add overhead. Plus, RPGIII doesn't like native date 
fields anyway, so the big payoff wouldn't be there unless you were moving 
to RPG IV at the same time.

Bob Cozzi


-----Original Message-----
From:   Cotes, Steven [SMTP:cotess@data-io.com]
Sent:   Thursday, June 05, 1997 4:13 PM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        RE: Year 2000



> ----------
> From:         Susan Durrie[SMTP:sed1@earthlink.net]
> Sent:         Thursday, June 05, 1997 7:22 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Year 2000
>
        <snip>
        >Our greatest debate is whether or not to use native dates or to
        >go to an 8 digit numeric YYYYMMDD for our file date fields.

A number of tools (claim to) do most what you want, including the one
from ASC.
Almost all of them can convert to and populate 8 digit numeric fields.
The one feature I haven't seen is the option of converting to date data
types.
I'd like to know of one that does.
 - Steve Cotes
 - cotess@data-io.com
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