Re: Day of the week

I'm not sure how that would be easier.  The program is written, all you have
to do is compile it and call it.  With a CL or this COBOL program you have
to test the result passed back and test.  Also the day of the week was not
specified (but I can see it as being implied) as today.  If you want to find
the day of the week for 60 days from today, or 12 days ago, can you do that
in the CL program easily?

Calling a CL program might be a better solution, as it might not be date
restricted like the one I posted, but you can't do date calcs with it.  It
would be a better solution to use ILE and all the date type  functionality
that comes with it, but that was not the requirement.  This also keeps the
solution all COBOL.

Thanks!

On 8/16/06, Zangare Basil <bzangare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry... when I said 'easier' I meant for a non-ILE program.



Basil Zangare
Applications Specialist
Nikon Inc
1300 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, New York 11747
phone: (631) 547-4389
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-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Zangare Basil
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:36 AM
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] Day of the week

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
Applications Specialist
Nikon Inc
1300 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, New York 11747
phone: (631) 547-4389
fax: (631) 547-4026
bzangare@xxxxxxxxx


-----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
>

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