Re: Day of the week

["Zangare Basil" <bzangare@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't it be easier to call a CL program and execute the following command:

RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QDAYOFWEEK) RTNVAR(&DAYOFWEEK)

The value retrieved is in the format "*WED" which could be converted to 
"Wednesday" with either a table search or IF or CASE type statement in the CL 
or main program.  I would prefer to do it all in the CL and return "Wednesday". 
 This way there would be less code to insert if the call is added to other 
programs.



Basil Zangare
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Nikon Inc
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-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:00 PM
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] Day of the week

Hello,

I have a program that we used here for dates, until we went to the date data
types, and ILE.

The code for that program can be found at:

http://code.midrange.com/index.php?id=df0f108368

You pass the program MM DD and CCYY and get back a Julian type date - useful
in subtracting or adding days, and a day of the week.

I also have a program that converts that Julian style date back to Gregorian
so after you do the math (adding or subtracting days from the Julian date)
you can get the MM DD CCYY and day of week back.  I can post that if you
would like.

I would suggest that you start to use ILE and the date data types.  much
better and easier to deal with, and little or no date limitations.

HTH

On 8/15/06, Semiha Balkaya(İşbank) <sbalkaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Is there any way to retrieve Day Of Week value  in COBOL/400?
> I don't use ILE COBOL and when I try the statement for ILE COBOL, sure it
> gives syntax error written in below.
> How can I get this value in my program?
>
>
> Message   . . . . :   ANS COBOL reserved word DAY-OF-WEEK will be accepted
> as a
>    nonreserved word.
>
> Cause . . . . . :   DAY-OF-WEEK is a reserved word in the 1985 ANSI COBOL
>    standard (revised 1989), but it is not a COBOL/400* reserved word.
>
> Recovery  . . . :   Do not use ANS (American National Standard) COBOL
> reserved
>    words that are not COBOL/400 reserved words.
>
>
>
>
>
> In ILE Cobol you can:
>
> 77 w-giorno        pic  9(1) value zero.
>
> ACCEPT w-giorno from DAY-OF-WEEK
> display " today is " w-giorno
>          ".th day of the week".
>
> Good luck.
>
>         Domenico Finucci