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Sudhir KL
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I have a repoting job that runs on fridays. The program picks the date from system. The date printed in the report is of Friday.
But I want Monday's date to be printed in the report. So, how do I get 5 days prior date? Is there any function . Thank you |
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Ketan Varhade
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You can add the dates using DB2 operation and then print, COBOL does not support any date calculation or your shop may have some routine that does such operation the best way is to do this is using DB2
The preceeding info is incorrrect. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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What is your version/release of COBOL?
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enrico-sorichetti
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Robert Sample
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| COBOL does not support any date calculation |
Actually, recent versions of COBOL do with the FUNCTION capability -- date values can be converted to an integer number of days, values added or subtracted, and converted back. Not to mention COBOL supports use of the LE date functions as well -- so there's at least two different ways now to do date calculations in COBOL. |
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Sudhir KL
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| thank you very much. I got the integer of date and did some calculation and converted back. |
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dick scherrer
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Good to hear it is working - thanks for letting us know 
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