Option #3 was chosen. No choice. The mainframe app is a legacy app that can't be easily changed.

>>The whole app is SET CENTURY ON but the problem came when testing mainframe inport files where the date in the incoming delimited file is 2/29/00.
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>Yep... gonna be a problem. A few solutions.
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>1. Get the text file in the format CCYYMMDD... it will import properly.
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>2. Get a 4 digit date in the text file.... you will have to import the date as character, change the field type to date. G Takser posted some code for me in the 2.6 section a few months ago that does this.
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>3. Import the field as text, expand the field, parse the dates and add a century value, probably based on some rollover. Then, change the field type to date.
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>BOb