•Dates
may be in a legacy format
–Example:
a system stores an invoice date as DECIMAL(2,0) Century,
DECIMAL(2,0) Year, DECIMAL(2,0) Month and DECIMAL(2,0)
Day.
–If
the client intends to manipulate the value as a date, do the
transformation on the 400 prior to sending the data to the
client
–Some
clients can not understand the full range of an AS/400 date, fix
up these dates before sending to the client