This Natural profile and session parameter determines the format in which
the settings of date variables are displayed by INPUT,
DISPLAY,
PRINT and
WRITE statements.
Within a Natural session, the profile parameter
DFOUT can be overridden by the session parameter
DFOUT.
| Possible settings | S |
Date variables are displayed with a
2-digit year component, and delimiters as determined by the profile parameter
DTFORM. For
example:
yy-mm-dd.
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I |
Date variables are displayed with a
full 4-digit year component and no delimiters. For example:
yyyymmdd.
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| Default setting | S |
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| Dynamic specification | yes | ||
| Specification within session | yes | Applicable Statements: | SET
GLOBALS |
| Applicable Command: | GLOBALS |
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| Application Programming Interface | USR1005N |
See SYSEXT - Natural Application Programming Interfaces in the Utilities documentation. | |
Notes:
DFOUT is
evaluated at runtime. It applies to date fields in
INPUT,
DISPLAY,
PRINT and
WRITE statements for
which no explicit edit mask is specified and for which the session
parameter DF is not set.
DTFORM profile
parameter.
See also Processing of Date Information in the Programming Guide.
