How to add buseness days to a date

rkprasanth_m · New User Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 44

can someone tell me how to add business days to a date, like add 1 business day to today.

emonmisra · New User Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

You have to write the logic with(if and evalute keywords) to add 1 to the Business day means today's date.

If it is CObol program you can write in the Procedure division

ACCEPT CurrentDate FROM DATE

DATE is system variable (check the format) . It is 6 digit date .
then separate the month,day, yr moving this to the group variable.

apply your program logic .

DavidatK · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:31 am

Well, let?s look at this.

If today is Nov 7, 2006 and you add one business day you will want Nov 8, 2006. But if today is Nov 10, 2006 (Friday) you want Nov 13, 2006 (Monday), assuming Saturday and Sunday are not business days. And if Nov 13, 2006 is a holiday you will want Nov 14, 2006.

Since there is no set business, or non-business days, the only way to do this is to have a short file with the exceptions to the ?normal? mon-fri business days. When you add or subtract business days, you must interrogate the file for non-business day exceptions. It?s not a pretty process.

Dave

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:59 am

a couple of comments.

The Language Environment extentions provide a lot of intrinsic functions that can be CALLed by cobol. any documents with CEE prefix is LE. But some shops don't have LE.

Most businesses have some kind of system calendar, which would include declarations for such things as holidays, work-week number, work-day number, business days, etc... If nothing else, payroll has one. Any business that performs billing will have such a calendar; and routines to access.

Something that is important as Business day or holiday calculations must be a centralized BUSINESS CONCEPT. If you shop does not have one, it should. I would ask around and find the one that has been accepted by the auditors.

Saturday is day 1 in Kuwait (most of the middle east).

Magna · New User Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 24

Does your business days include the US holidays or not?

chinni_reddy · New User Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2

Hi,

How to check for low values in cobol,
I want to dispaly particular field if it has low values / high values, so for this I want to write a cobol program. Pls help me
IF FIELD-NAME = LOWVALUES

THEN DISPALY FIELD-NAME.

Will the above codition works,

Thanks,
Sunitha

guptae · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:18 pm

Hi chinni_reddy

Please start new topic.

vijay_bn79 · New User Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Hyderabad