hexadecimal date math

[bibarnes@yahoo.com]

I think the reason for the strange result is that the x'10' is not a valid packed number. x'010f' or x'1f' would give a 10 day or 1 day difference respectively.

[Guest.Visitor]

No, X'10' should be valid anywhere a numeric literal can be coded. I expect Gene will report the defect to IBM through the usual channels, and a fix should be available in some future release. In the meantime, I hope coding a numeric literal isn't too big a hardship.

[G.Gaunt]

When I run code like this on V5R1:

 H dftactgrp( *no ) datfmt( *usa ) D A S D inz( D'12/17/2002' ) D B S D D C S D /free B = A - %days( X'10' ); dsply B; C = A - %days( 16 ); dsply C; *INLR = *on; /end-free 

I am surprised to see the following:

DSPLY 01/01/0001 DSPLY 12/01/2002 

Doesn't RPG date math work with hexadecimal?