Re: Compute Date Duration

"Beppe Costa" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.mi
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The right value for "DDAT_Size"  should be

(2*DDAT lng) + (4 + 2 + 10 + 4 + 4) = 256

But it seems to work with any value.

DDAT2 and DDAT3 are the same and should be 116

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Njål Fisketjøn" <njal.fisketjon-gyXR7Lt7FVk/[email protected]>
To: "MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <mi400-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: [MI400] Compute Date Duration


> Beppe Costa wrote:
>
> > For those who are interested to explore the MI builtin _CDD, the code
> > follows.
> >
> > It returns a duration in the format 8,0 Pack. In this case the returned
> > value is 00501130 (that is 50 years + 11 month + 30 days).
> >
> > Than, how can I convert this figure to a number of days ?
> >
> > I've also tried to use CVTD but always unsuccesfully.
> >
>
> The MI reference specifies that the Data Definitional Attribute Template
is 112-N bytes long,
> but if I add the lengths of all fields I get 100 bytes as a minimum
length. If I specify
> 100 bytes for dat 1 _CDD fails because the format of dat 2 is wrong.
>
> How have you defined the template when trying to use a labelled duration?
>
>
>
>
>
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