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Read-Only Communication Fields You can use the contents of the following read-only fields for interrogation and display only. *DATE Contains the current date. Internally, this is held in the format YY/MM/DD. When this field is displayed in a field with a type D or T edit code on a screen or a report, the date is displayed in the format MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY as specified by the system administrator. The field is eight characters long and has a type D edit code. *DBENAME Contains the fully qualified external name of the DBECon file for the current application's HP ALLBASE/SQL database. The field is 128 characters long and has a type K edit code. *KEYS Contains the name of the current function key set. The field is 16 characters long and has a type K edit code. *PREVFLD Contains the number of the last field successfully committed. It is updated when all validation checks have passed for the current field and the cursor is moved to another field. It is set to 1 when you first enter a screen. This is the only case where *FIELDNO (the current field number) and *PREVFLD (the previous field number) are equal. The field is three digits long, has a type N edit code and is right justified. *SUITE Contains the name of the current application, or the name of the base application if the current application is a version of a base application. The field is 8 characters long, has a type K edit code and is left justified. *TIME Contains the current time of day. The field is eight characters long and holds the time in the format hh:mm:ss. *USER Contains the current user name. The field is eight characters long, has a type K edit code, and is left justified. *VERSION Contains the name of the current version. The field is eight characters long, has a type K edit code, and is left justified.