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Changing System Values A user must have proper authority to change a system value; in many installations only the security officer has sufficient authority to make these changes.

This means that you would need to declare the data types you want to return from the file in advance.

Another system value is QYEAR, which would hold only the year value in this example, 96.

In conclusion, either force your users to write dates in a fixed format, or be prepared to write a very intelligent parsing function! This parameter is made up of 3 components although only 1 is required to retrieve a valid date.

QINACTITV — The Inactive Job Time-out system value controls the amount of time a terminal can remain signed-on without any activity.

Unfortunately this turns out to be very difficult in the general case, due to the multitude of different ways of writing dates and times that we use.

Line 26: Here is where I give the name of the dummy file.

The following short example illustrates how to process all members of a file in alphabetical order.

The example program supplied in this article is called whenever someone executes the Restore Object RSTOBJ command.

The CVTDAT commands will generate an escape message, such as CPF05555 Date not in specified format or date not valid and CPF0557 Date too short for specified format if the user keys an invalid date.