Re: CL: Numeric padding

As much as I'd like to promote BRMS and having meaningful tape names is
long dead I suspect that's not an option for your shop. So try this:
DCL VAR(&JOBDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
DCL VAR(&YYMMDD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
RTVJOBA DATE(&JOBDATE)
CHGVAR VAR(&YYMMDD) VALUE(%sst(&jobdate 5 2) *cat +
%sst(&jobdate 1 4))
SNDMSG MSG(&YYMMDD) TOUSR(ROB)

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 4:30 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I want my Save 21 tapes are meant to have a label YYMMDD applied without
much manual information. I began to write a CL program like this:

DCL VAR(&TAPDRV) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(5) VALUE(TAP01)
DCL VAR(&SYSYR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)
DCL VAR(&SYSMON) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)
DCL VAR(&SYSDAY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)
DCL VAR(&TAPLBL) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)

RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QYEAR) RTNVAR(&SYSYR)
RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QMONTH) RTNVAR(&SYSMON)
RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QDAY) RTNVAR(&SYSDAY)

CHGVAR VAR(&TAPLBL) VALUE(&SYSYR *CAT &SYSMON *CAT &SYSDAY)

Unfortunately, the system values aren't padded with 0's when single-digit
which creates ambiguity.

I could hard code 18 lines of "if day equals 1 then change variable to be
01", and so on. This seems to be pretty ugly. How would you solve this in
CL(LE)?

Thanks!

:wq! PoC

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