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Thats what is confusing me. There is no format, so far as i know, for a date field. I tried *JOB but that is *MDY. When I tried it the CVTDAT command failed saying there were too many or too few numeric characters. I could try *ISO, but gosh... why? I'd like to know what I am doing in case there are gotcha's that I should be aware of? (I spend way to much of my time as it is not knowing why I do some of this stuff. I still never figured out why I need chicken feet tacked to the wall for example, but Joe says I need it, so I do it.



Rubino, Jim wrote:
Booth,

You may need to tell the CVTDAT command what the from format is in order
to get the to format correct.

Jim
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Using CL, how do I get the month from a data date field?

I have a date type field in the first record of a data file.

I want to get the month from it, in CL.

Here's what I tried and I can not make work:

CVTDAT     DATE(&FCMDTE) TOVAR(&FCMDTE) TOFMT(*ISO)
IF         COND(%SUBSTRING(&FCMDTE 4 2) = '04') THEN(DO)

The CVTDAT fails because the CL believes the date field is *MDY (RTVJOBA
of DATFMT = *MDY).

I believe I am making this way to complicated.


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