Re: REXX and dates from commands

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Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) wrote:

Sorry, but the only date information in the manuals is for retrieving the
system date to REXX. Also, according to the programmer's guide, the command
line arguments are passed to REXX in the form typed.

There are indeed many code examples in the manuals; however, none deal with
incoming date data from a command.

I was hoping to find out where command date conversion to the CYMD format
occurs - is it in the command processor, the CL compiler, or setup for the
appropriate command environment. I'm thinking it's the difference from
specifying a program CPP versus a REXX CPP, as any program CPP receives
dates in the CYMD format. That does make data conversion and separation an
issue, as my understanding of the command processor was to provide a
consistent format for dates, regardless of the input format. (Given a valid
date, of course.)

I *could* write a CL CPP that passes the parms straight to the REXX
procedure, but that would be pretty terrible.

Thanks,
Loyd

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
E/TS Water Valley
662-473-5713