PowerHouse 7.10G2 release info

[Richard Witkopp]

> P.S. ZDATE allows storage of the century in 6 character format
>      such that  991231 = 19991231
>                 A00101 = 20000101
>                 A10101 = 20010101
>                 B01010 = 20100101
>                 B90101 = 20900101    ..... etc
>               ie the 1st 2 chars Ax = 200x
>                                  Bx = 201x   etc
> 
>     I believe that if you have dates stored as 
> ** character size6** or ** zoned-u size6 ** and you do not have any
> advanced dates, then to be y2k compliant, all you have to do 
> is change the
> data type to ZDATE and include the new INPUT CENTURY command in the
> dictionary, then just recompile! You may not even have to 
> convert advanced
> dates!
> 
> Could anybody let me know if I an wrong, please.

I would think converting zoned fields this way would be very
dangerous to non-Powerhouse apps using those fields.
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