date type field test

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a physical file with an L date type.  The field is received from
a custom "EDI" transaction.  A customer sent me a date of 1920/01/01 for
order date, obviously an incorrect date for an order, but a valid date,
and it went in fine to my database.

Now I must send this date back out using another custom "EDI'
application, and my RPGLE program tries to move this date to a *YMD
field, but my program bombs because it is an invalid 6 digit date.
AS/400 thinks 01-39 years are 21st century.

How can I test that this *ISO type date field is also a valid *YMD
field.  If I use the test operation, it won't let me use factor 1 as
*YMD.  If i use TEST(D), the compiler fails because (D) is not needed
because this is already a date field.

I guess I have to move this date to an alpha or numeric field first,
then do TEST(D).

Any other ideas?

--
Art Tostaine, Jr.
Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
Parlin, NJ
atostaine_at_crecomp_dot_com


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