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venkata

Hi Friends,

I have used in my program this command to convert the date into number of days. i.e. FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-DATE . But after compilation I got the error saying that "FUNCTION" was not defined as a data-name and "INTEGER-OF-DATE" was invalid.

Can anybody tell, what is the function we can use to convert date into number of days?

Thanks,
Venkata

Manas Biswal · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 4:46 am Post subject:

Hi Venkata,

Which COBOL compiler are you using? I think that VS COBOL II does not support these functions. COBOL/370 and COBOL for MVS support these functions.
The following link talks about a similar problem -

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=19&highlight=function

If you are compiling with Language Environment, then you can have a look at the following LE callable services to accomplish your task -

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA8030/4.2?DT=20000630130727

Regards,
Manas

venkata · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:38 am Post subject:

Hi Manas,

Thanks for your valuable suggestion.
But Still I am getting error. According to your suggestion I have modified the code to convert date into days like below.
WS-DAYS = CEEDAYS(YYYYMMDD) and error message is "=" was invalid. Skipped to the next verb, period or procedure-name definition.

Can you tell me, whether my code is correct or not?

Thanks,
Venkata

kolusu · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:51 am Post subject:

Venkata,

CEEDAYS is a language environment CALLABLE service. So Check this for a "callable" Examples of CEEDAYS. The second example is a COBOL example

I would also suggest you read the following manual for a better understanding of language environment callable services.

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA3010/CCONTENTS

Hope this helps...

cheers

kolusu