Comments on: Storing a date as mdy from an outfile when executing strqmqry

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:48:15 +0000

Ignore my previous comment… posted in wrong thread. — Tom

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:34:04 +0000

The solution is temporary. There will be other problems. You can find a number of problems discussed in this forum and in just about any similar forum on the internet.

There are a number of plain SMTP free e-mail solutions that do not require use of SNDDST nor QDLS. Maybe the most common is Mime&Mail for IBM System i from Easy400. Java e-mail has also become fairly common, and other solutions exist. SMTP e-mail can also be done without any 3rd-party utilities by calling the native SMTP functions, but most sites prefer a utility.

SNDDST plus QDLS is a useful short-term function. For continuing long-term use, you need to use features that are appropriate to the task.

Tom

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:06:13 +0000

i have a date coming in to a query in *iso format.

What do you mean by “coming into a query in *iso format”? Firxt, where is it coming from? Is it coming from a Date field? If it is, it’s not in *ISO format. The *ISO format is only for presentation. Or is it a Char field with a date value? If it is, it’s not a ‘date’ and the format is irrelevant except for how your coding might parse it.

when i put it into a date field it comes back as y/m/d…

What do you mean by “it comes back”? Back to where?

…despite the fact my datfmt is set to *mdy

What do you mean by “[your] datfmt”? Is that a job DATFMT()? Is it in a program? Somewhere else?

Tom

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