Re: Date Comparison yyyymm

I just don't see how it would be any less disruptive to move from 5 digit
dates to 7 digit dates than it would have been to go to a DATE field.
Unless you were still doing a lot of RPGII or some such thing (which may
have been more likely 18 years ago).
There's the usual concerns about double meanings. For example a date of
all 9's means something special. Then again a DATE of 1666-01-01 could
mean the same thing.
And as far as disk space goes, one has to remember that DSPPFM does not
tell you really how many bytes a date field takes. That was customized,
along with RPG buffers and everything else, so that older versions of RPG
could process it as a string. I think you'd have to either find the
documentation, or delve down into DMPOBJ or some such thing.


Rob Berendt