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saravanan80 · Beginner Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 14 Topics: 6

Is there any JCL command to convert the date from

Gregarian Format to Julian Format .

Julian format to Gregarian Format.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

Please show an example of the input and output date values for each case.

Please give the starting position, length and format of the input and output date fields for each case.

Please give the RECFM and LRECL of the input file.
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saravanan80 · Beginner Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 14 Topics: 6

The format is

Julian --- 2007 152

it means the year 2007 and 152nd day

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

That doesn't answer my questions (e.g. is that CH format, ZD format, PD format, something else? what is the starting position? what is the length? what would the output look like? etc). Please read my post again and answer ALL of the questions. If you can't find the time to answer ALL of my questions, then I can't find the time to help you (but maybe somebody else can).
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saravanan80 · Beginner Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 14 Topics: 6

HOw to covert from Julian date(2007119) to Gregorian(2007/04/29) date using JCL.

I have an input contains like Current date,next date are in Julian formate.

2007119 2007120

I want display report(from julian to Gregorian) like:

Current_date Next-Date
2007/04/29 2007/04/30

Bill Dennis · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

What Frank is asking for is the data type!

In your file, is the field:
- packed decimal x'2007119F', or
- zoned decimal x'F2F0F0F7F1F1F9', or what?
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

No - there is not a JCL command to convert dates - JCL tells the computer what programs to run. Rexx will very nicely do conversions on dates, most other languages need a bit of coding. But, enterprise compiled languages may have access to nifty date routines that I am not aware of as we are not that advanced in our place.
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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

I thought this looked familiar. I actually answered this exact same question a while back:

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=8290&highlight=nextdate

Is this a class exercise? If so, you really should do your own homework.
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