RE: RPG - conversion vs re-write

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:25 PM 9/9/97 -0500, Bob wrote:
>We do NOT have null values in dates, or any other fields. There is a NULL 
>INDICATOR, however.
>
>A really sucky implementation of nulls. You set ON a %NULLID(myDateFld) 
>flag and then test if it's equal to ON. The date field can contain only 
>valid dates, but the null indicator can be on or off.  I am very 
>disappointed in this implementation. ;-(
>
>
>Bob Cozzi

Right on! DB2/400 has some kind of bit flag for NULL values. There's no
reason not to have an %ISNULL BIF, like SQL does, 'if field = *NULL'.

Let's here it for embedded SQL, or SQL-CLI, huh?

Cheers

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