Re: When did IBM introduce the date data type

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Early versions were pretty buggy - lots of ptfs, so if you are planning on
using on old release systems, be careful. Were lots of fixes all the way 
thru y2k.
jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: When did IBM introduce the date data type


> But they became available in DDS in V2R3, right? Or am I confused?
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: When did IBM introduce the date data type
> > From: Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, December 02, 2005 11:28 am
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Date types have been available since the beginning of the AS/400
> > (iSeries).  Dates, Times and Timestamps were introduced in either
> > release 7 or 8 of CPF (S/38).
> >
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> > Chris Payne wrote:
> > > When did the date data type become available on DB2 for the iSeries?
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