Re: prob - storing date in rpg /400

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are many ways to do this, which you can learn in a class on RPG, or 
programming in general.  This is not rocket science.

Assuming Y2K compliancy is not needed (or even include YEAR), one simple 
way would be to create an array (defined in the "E" specifications) called 
MON for month or PER for period, with 12 values consisting of: Jan; Feb; 
Mar; Apr; May; Jun: Jul; Aug; Sep: oct; Nov; Dec.

You then display on the screen the value MON,MM where MON is your array and 
MM is month extracted from the date which you can do with a data structure 
at end of input specifications, by overlaying the unpacked date with 
definition of field MM, or you can also extract it with a move to smaller 
field (assuming date field is not complicated with having year in there).

> RPG/400--->
>   i have a   physical file...  field (suppose date of birth)
>
>   EMPDAT     4P 0      TEXT('EMPLOYEE DATE OD BIRTH')
>                                  (length 4 packed   with zero decimal 
> places  )
>   EMPNME  20A         TEXT('EMPLOYEE NAME')
>
>    date(EMPDAT) should be stored as DD-MM the data base file but when it is
>    displayed on the screen (say screen1). it should be displayed as
>   DD -MMM(e.g. 27 - oct)''please tell me how to  do this..
>   thank you .....
>   :))
>
>
>
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