Convert ABSOLUTE days to a GREGORIAN DATE

vicky10001 · Active User Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 136

I need the logic of "CONVERT ABSOLUTE DAYS TO A GREGORIAN DATE" in cobol (tunned code).

Please let me know the tunned logic its good for me.

Thanks in advance.

murmohk1 · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:37 am

Vicky,

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:51 am

Check it out if you meant to convert it in Gregorian Format from a standard date format YYYYMMDD.

DATE-OF-INTEGER

vicky10001 · Active User Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 136

Thx for help
But if using the above function cpu time will consume more so that i have to write logic for the above function. Please let me know the logic for conversation from Days to Gregorian(CCYYMMDD) .

Thanks in advance

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:13 pm

vicky10001 · Active User Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 136

Hi all,

Please let me know any other simple logic and less cpu time consumation.

Thanks in advance.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:57 pm

FUNCTION DATE-OF-INTEGER (under the covers) issues a BALR (CALL) to an LE Callable Service routine.

One of the benefits of the LE Date routines are their use of internal tables, which significantly reduces CPU consumption. The other benefit is that LE will return a bad feedback-code when an invalid days-value is found, whereas the FUNCTION equvilent will always crash and burn.

As others have said, the CPU used by LE as opposed to in-line code is nearly immeasurable and really not worth worrying about.

If this is a Batch program and this date-conversion is used extensively in the given program, then (in HOUSEKEEPING) establish addressability to the actual LE routine, via a PROCEDURE-POINTER and then use the first 4-bytes of this PROCEDURE-POINTER value in subsequents CALLS. Using this technique can reduce CPU as well.

HTH....

Regards,

Bill