Method: Row timestamp
Function name: rowoptime
Parameter list: none
Return type: CHAR
What the method does: The implied input is the current data row. Returns the date and time at which the iSeries update operation occurred. Time is GMT, including fractions of a second.
Uses the following format:
YYYYMMDDHHMMSSffffff
where:
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YYYY–the year (for example, 2010)
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MM–the month (for example, 06 for June)
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DD–the date (for example, 25)
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HH–the hour in a 24-hour clock (for example, 20 for 8:00 pm).
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MM–the minute
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SS–the seconds
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ffffff–is fractions of a second
There are no inputs for this method.
Note: All 6 digits (for System i5 and SQL Server) contain fractional digits that are accurate to 6 digits. Other databases fractional digits may be padded with up to 6 zeros so that all timestamps for all databases total 20 digits.