Thanks Mike, but I am NOT looking for a day-of-week routine (although this looks like a good one!)
I am asking if user-defined functions can be created in Cobol/400 or Cobol/ile.
Unfortunately the answer appears to be NO all around!
I was using the day-of-week routine as an example.
Thanks for your response.
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Joel, To do a similar thing I used the 'Common Execution Environment' API's. I had to come up with the day of the week number 1/7, Sunday being 1.
Here's how I did it. Most likely a little lengthy but effective. In a COBOL ILE program also.
All came from IBM's manual explaining some of the CEE api's. I didn't find a similar ILE function. There may be one, I just haven't found it.
ALL DEVELOPMENT CREDIT GOES TO IBM. I just had to make it go. IBM did a very good job here.
Good luck. mh
SPECIAL-NAMES.
** CEExxxx API's from the Common Execution Environment
** Special-Names API Calls for Day-of-week
LINKAGE TYPE PROCEDURE FOR 'CEEDAYS' USING ALL DESCRIBED
LINKAGE TYPE PROCEDURE FOR 'CEEDYWK' USING ALL DESCRIBED
** Special-Names I-O Feedback
I-O-FEEDBACK IS PNL-FEEDBACK.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WSCCEEDATES.
05 WSCLILIAN-DATE PIC S9(09) BINARY.
05 WSCDOW-NUM PIC S9(09) BINARY.
05 WSCDOW-TXT PIC X(10).
05 WSCDOW-FMT PIC X(10) VALUE 'Wwwwwwwwwz'.
05 WSCSAMPLE-DATE PIC X(08).
05 WSCDATE-FORMAT PIC X(08).
01 WSCDATA.
05 WSCDAYSTBL.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Sunday '.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Monday '.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Tuesday '.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Wednesday'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Thursday '.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Friday ! '.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'Saturday '.
05 WSCDAYS REDEFINES WSCDAYSTBL.
10 WSCDOW PIC X(09) OCCURS 07 TIMES
INDEXED BY WSC1.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MOVE YOUR-DATE-FIELD (as yyyymmdd) TO WSCSAMPLE-DATE
MOVE 'YYYYMMDD' TO WSCDATE-FORMAT
PERFORM 100-CEE THRU 100-EXIT
MOVE WSCDOW-NUM TO MYDOWFIELD
SET WSC1 TO MYDOWFIELD
MOVE WSCDOW (WSC1) TO MAPDAYFIELD
100-CEE.
CALL 'CEEDAYS' USING WSCSAMPLE-DATE
WSCDATE-FORMAT
WSCLILIAN-DATE
OMITTED.
CALL 'CEEDYWK' USING WSCLILIAN-DATE
WSCDOW-NUM
OMITTED.
100-EXIT.
EXIT.
MH
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subject: [COBOL400-L] COBOL user-defined functions
Does COBOL/400 or COBOL /ILE support user-defined functions in any fashion (like RPG and all other modern languages)?
For example,
Move DayOfWeek(Date-input) to print-line
Where DayOfWeek is a user-defined function returning "Monday" or "Tuesday" or etc.
If not, any idea why not?
Thanks!
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Already answered on Midrange list
On 2012-05-01, at 2:38 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:
Does COBOL/400 or COBOL /ILE support user-defined functions in any fashion (like RPG and all other modern languages)?
For example,
Move DayOfWeek(Date-input) to print-line
Where DayOfWeek is a user-defined function returning "Monday" or "Tuesday" or etc.
If not, any idea why not?
Thanks!
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