Re: Build Timestamp?

["Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth Martin (boothm@ibm.net) wrote:

>
I'm looking to build a Timestamp TYPE field.  Using the Timestamp
>
datatype.
>
>I'm missing something then.
>Why not use a Z field type in the first place?  and then:
>
>    C             TIME             ZFIELD
>
>where ZFIELD is described in the DDS spec as a Z type?

The TIME opcode requires a numeric result field. Crazy though it sounds
you cannot TIME straight into a timestamp field.

Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan
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