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Here is a test program that will do what you asked using the %timestamp and
a DS overlay. I hardcoded the timein parm for testing purposes, but you
could just replace that with the 13 byte numeric parm from your customer.


d timein s 13s 0 inz(1071203111426)
d check s z

d TimestampDS ds
d workin 20s 0 inz(0)
d timechk 13s 0 overlay(workin: 2)
d century 2s 0 overlay(workin: 1)

/free

timechk = timein;

if century = *zero;
century = 19;
endif;
if century = 1;
century = 20;
endif;

check = %timestamp(workin);

if workin > *zero;
// just for checking
endif;

*inlr = *on;

/end-free


On Dec 4, 2007 12:24 PM, Emily Smith <esmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm receiving a date field from a customer that is 13 bytes long and
formatted like this CYYMMDDHHMMSS
I need to write this out to a timestamp field in a file. Can anyone help
me figure this out? I could try checking the value of the century portion of
the date, to determine whether or not it's from this century or last, and
then do a bunch of substringing and concatenating to build a field in
timestamp format, but I was hoping there was a better way to accomplish
this.

Thanks

Emily


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