Re: day-of-week function (was:COBOL400-L Digest, Vol 10, Issue 9--should have been "COBOL user-defined functions")

If you use the "WSCDOW-FMT" instead of "WSCDOW-NUM", you eliminate the
need for the table to interpret the day-of-week number. The text day of
week is returned instead.

cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/03/2012 01:00:03 PM:

----- Message from "Hiers, Mike" <mhiers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
Wed, 2 May 2012 17:48:12 +0000 -----

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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