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Steve Ironmonger
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Hi Guys, wondering if you can help.
Is there any way of converting a date (yyyymmdd) into an Absolute Date, I work for a bank and we use an absolute date in quite a lot of programs, but just wondered if there was any way of converting it in sort or icetool ?
We define the absolute date as the number of days since 1st Jan 1900
So today (15th Dec 2015 -20151215) would be 42322
cheers
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Bill Woodger
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You want to have a look at DATEDIFF.
You're going to have to put the 1900 date into a temporary extension to the record to have access to it.
Exactly the best way to use it depends on exactly what you want to do, both generally and case-by-case perhaps as well. |
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Steve Ironmonger
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Hi Bill,
As an example I want to convert
20151215
to
42322
42322 being the number of days since 1st Jan 1900
or
19000131
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00031 |
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Bill Woodger
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Here's an example with converting a date to a number with DATEDIFF. To save adjusting by one, I used 18991231 not 19000101.
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OPTION COPY
INREC OVERLAY=(10:C'18991231',
20:1,8,Y4T,
DATEDIFF,
10,8,Y4T)
//SORTIN DD *
19000131
20151215 |
The output is:
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19000131 18991231 +0000031
20151215 18991231 +0042352 |
An eight-position field with a leading sign is created as the result of DATEDIFF. The + indicates that the second field is larger (- would indicate the opposite). Offset by three to get your desired result (23,5,CH for instance).
You need to temporarily "extend" each record to contain the base date, and the resultant difference. You can abut the fields, I've just left padding to more easily read the output.
For a fixed-length record, you extend after the end of the record. For a variable-length record extend at the beginning, using BUILD:
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| INREC BUILD=(1,4,C'18991231',8X,5) |
You have to return the data to its original size after using the DATEDIFF (can be in OUTREC or OUTFIL). |
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