Oct 17, 2018 · IBM recommendation is to use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP for "maximum portability" to other flavors of SQL. If I am going to embed SQL statements where I want a timestamp in RPG I don't care about portability, as it will be running on IBM i. Therefore, I can use NOW as it quicker type and takes up less room.

Jan 9, 2009 · time = %time() Code: cmdstring = 'sndmsg Msg(' + Q + 'The Time is ' + %char(%time()) + Q + ')' + ' tousr(' + %trim(workuser) + ')'

Oct 24, 2018 · Another of the enhancements with the latest round of Technical Refreshes, TR 5 for IBM i 7.3 and TR 9 for 7.2, is to the Db2 for i Extract function. This function will retrieve parts of dates and times from date, time, and timestamp variables.

Jul 14, 2012 · With SQL you could get the employee file information, as well as the earliest time-in and the latest time-out, all in a single read (fetch in SQL). It simplifies your code inside the loop quite a bit, doesn't it? So here's the basic flow in pseudo-code: Process your data. Fetch the next record. Not too scary looking, is it?

Jun 25, 2012 · With the %Date and %Time built-in-functions (or the appropriate SQL functions you can split the timestamp into a date and time field or you can overlay the timestamp with a date and time field. /Free. Exec SQL . Set :MyDS.Timestamp = Timestamp_Format(:MyChar, 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI');

Aug 11, 2009 · I have used an opcode TIME which will give Time and Date. i need to get milliseconds also. Is there any way to get milliseconds in RPG, as my output must be same as the one retrieved from %timestamp BIF.

In SENSETIVE cursor the current updated data is fetched from the database. Hence if any kind of updating or insertion happens in the database the cursor is modified accordingly to provide the latest data. In INSENSITIVE cursor, the data is copied to a temporary memory and then the cursor fetches the data from there.

Mar 13, 2019 · When updating date/time fields in a file using embedded SQL in an RPGLE program I can use either CURRENT_DATE/CURRENT_TIME or store the current date/time value into a host variable. And use this host for assignign.

TIME opcode in as400 is used to retrieve Time, Date, Timestamp.TIME opcode example is given below.

May 4, 2021 · Either a variable with time, %TIME() or a time literal can be passed to %SUBDT. Line – 15: A time variable is being passed to extract hours. Line – 20: %TIME() is being passed to extract minutes.