Re: Questions on CONVERT-DATE-TIME and ADD-DURATION

The IBM manual says that FUNCTION CONVERT-DATE-TIME argument-2 "specifies
the category of the return variable".
So much for IBM manuals.
Thanks to Finucci Domenico for informing us that argument-2 specifies the
category of argument-1!

You could save a few move commands by judicial use of a 05 level as follows,
but it does not make the program any faster or clearer.
0013.00        01  W-SYSTEM-DATE.
0014.00            05  W-SYSTEM-TIME-NUMERIC    PIC 9(14)V9(2).
0016.00        01  W-DATE-1                     PIC
9999/99/99/99,99,99.999999.
0017.00        01  W-SYSTEM-TIME                FORMAT TIME.
0018.00        PROCEDURE DIVISION.
0019.00        MAIN-PROGRAM SECTION.
0020.00        000-MAIN-PROGRAM.
0021.00            MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO W-SYSTEM-DATE.
0022.00            DISPLAY W-SYSTEM-TIME-NUMERIC.
0023.00            MOVE W-SYSTEM-TIME-NUMERIC TO W-DATE-1.
0024.00            MOVE "-"                   TO W-DATE-1(5:1)
0025.00            MOVE "-"                   TO W-DATE-1(8:1)
0026.00            MOVE "-"                   TO W-DATE-1(11:1)
0027.00            MOVE "."                   TO W-DATE-1(14:1)
0028.00            MOVE "."                   TO W-DATE-1(17:1)
0029.00            MOVE FUNCTION CONVERT-DATE-TIME(W-DATE-1 TIMESTAMP)
0030.00              TO W-SYSTEM-TIME.
No wonder people are migrating away from COBOL is it takes 7 statements to
put the current date into a timestamp format.
Yes, I know you can INSPECT W-DATE-1 REPLACING "/" WITH "-".
and INSPECT W-DATE-1 RELACING "," WITH "."., but that's slower and still
leaves 4 statements.
Hey IBM!  How about "MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE(TIMESTAMP) TO W-DATE-1."?
I know, I know.  Use an API.  But why do I have to retrieve the system
status just to get the current date in a timestamp format?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Finucci Domenico" <finucci@Fiditalia.it>
To: <COBOL400-L@midrange.com>
Cc: "'Robert E. Burger'" <rburger@home.net>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 3:30 AM
Subject: R: Questions on CONVERT-DATE-TIME and ADD-DURATION


> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Robert E. Burger [mailto:rburger@home.net]
> Inviato: domenica 27 febbraio 2000 08.20
> A: cobol400-L@midrange.com
> Oggetto: Questions on CONVERT-DATE-TIME and ADD-DURATION
>
> Answer :
> Try to edit the program this way:
>
> WORKING
> 01 w-SYSTEM-DATE           pic x(21).
> (**) 01 w-date-1                             pic x(26).
> 01 w-SYSTEM-TIME           FORMAT TIME.
>
>
> (**) You know that the format for a timestamp item must be:
> "YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnn"  where nnn is 1000th sec,
>            26 byte total.
>
>
> PROCEDURE
>  move w-system-date(1:4)  to w-date-1(1:4)
>  move "-"                                  to w-date-1(5:1)
>  move w-system-date(5:2)  to w-date-1(6:2)
>  move "-"                                  to w-date-1(8:1)
>  move w-system-date(7:2)  to w-date-1(9:2)
>  move "-"                                  to w-date-1(11:1)
>  move w-system-date(9:2)  to w-date-1(12:2)
>  move "."                                  to w-date-1(14:1)
>  move w-system-date(11:2) to w-date-1(15:2)
>  move "."                                   to w-date-1(17:1)
>  move w-system-date(13:2) to w-date-1(18:2)
>  move "."                                    to w-date-1(20:1)
>  move "000000"                       to w-date-1(21:6)
>  display "w-date-1 " w-date-1
>  MOVE FUNCTION CONVERT-DATE-TIME (w-date-1  TIMESTAMP)
>       TO w-SYSTEM-TIME.
>
> Let me know if this works on yr. AS/400 too.
> Regards.
> D. Finucci
> Fiditalia SPA, Milano
>
>
>
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