RE: CVTDAT TOSEP(*NONE) not working?

[Darrell A Martin <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think it'd have been good of IBM to be more explicit
> about this, so that we don't need to draw conclusions
> about separators from the length of the result field.

Hi:

Somewhere, I'll bet, there is an IBM systems programmer who is muttering 
to himself, "But the hyphens in an ISO date aren't 'separators'." Or at 
least he would, if he had been reading this thread. And I think he would 
be right, about ISO dates, but wrong about i/400 terminology. At least, he 
would be wrong if the following from the iSeries Information Center is 
correct (I searched on "date separators" in the V5R2 documentation);

"When you use date-type fields, the date separators are always included in 
the date."

Trying to cover every ambiguity of terminology is one of the things that 
makes IBM's documentation so voluminous. Then, failing to anticipate every 
way in which people will perceive things -- besides the way the 
documentation defines them -- is one of the things that makes all that 
documentation paradoxically incomplete. It has ever been thus, and I 
reckon so it will ever be.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  754-2187
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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