Inserting current date in header record

surya_pathaus · Active User Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 110

Hi all,

I am having a dataset with Header records. This data set contain 3 Header lines.

Now I want to insert current date in 2nd Header Line thru JCL.
This dataset created manually, is not coming from any of the program.

for example my dataset is :
Report
Report of ¤t date
employeeid employee name brand place

The above dataset created manually. Now in this dataset I have to insert current date in the 2nd header line.

Can you please suggest me. ICETOOL is not operational in my shop.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:14 pm

The solution depends on exactly what your header records look like. Please show an example of your input records and what exactly you want for output. In particular, show what form you want the date in (e.g C'yyyymmdd' or C'yyyyddd' or ?). Also, what is the RECFM and LRECL of the input file?

surya_pathaus · Active User Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 110

Hi Frank,

My Input contains 3 header lines.
1) REPORT NAME
2) REPORT OF CURRENT DATE
3) HEADINGS OF ALL COLUMNS

In this 2nd headerline I need to add current date after "REPORT OF" in the form of c'yyyymmdd'.

My record length is 150.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:48 pm

Here's a DFSORT job that will do what you asked for:

David P · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:16 am

Hi frank,

I have one querry regarding the solution that you had given above.

While running the ICEMAN step if there are any other records with REPORT OF at the same position those will also be modified. In other words how can we make sure that the OVERLAY option will be used only for the second record.

-Thanks in advance.
David P.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:29 am

If you want to use the 2nd record rather than 'REPORT OF' to identify the record to be modified, you can use this DFSORT job:

David P · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:57 am

Thanks for the response Frank. I tried it and it looks good.

-David P.

surya_pathaus · Active User Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 110

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the reply. Its working fine.

One more thing I want to ask, when we mention DATE1, format will be YYYYMMDD.

But most of our reports we will display date in MM/DD/YY format.
Is it possible to display the date in the above format?
Ofcourse presently I am using DATE1 only.

But I dont know if they ask for MM/DD/YY format then I need to change.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:38 pm

DFSORT allows you to specify a wide variety of dates. For mm/dd/yy, you can use DATE=(MDY/) - for a list of all of the available date and time formats, see the "How can I put timestamps in my output records?" Ask Professor Sort item at:

www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/professor_sort/

surya_pathaus · Active User Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 110

Hi Frank,

Thanks a lot.
As I expected they asked me to change it.