Re: COBOL/DB2 Date edit question

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Graham Hobbs" <ghobbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
MP!ZADATEI is a field on a CICS screen, populated from a column in a
row from a DB2 table. The user changes it and now it needs editing


Your EXEC SQL may yet be a winner, just give it a host variable... :-)
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Isn't using EXEC SQL .... END-EXEC kind of an obtuse way to validate a date
entered upon the screen?

Not that it can't be made to work, but generally you'd have some kind of
library routine around to handle that.

Besides, at some point it's possible (probable?) you are going to have to
reformat it anyway to do the UPDATE


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