Re: *ISO date in COBOL?

So, dates like '0001-01-01' will cause the error? There are quite a few of
those in the file (we receive the file from a 3rd party).

In RPGLE, I can use the MONITOR function to help catch bad dates; is there
an equivalent in COBOL?

TomH

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Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] *ISO date in COBOL?

Check the compile listing to see if the field is being specified as FORMAT

DATE '@Y-%m-%d'. There could also be an entry under special names which
could throw things off. If the format isn't specified with '@Y-%m-%d', the
compiler will treat the dates using the job default--and you cannot set
DATFMT for a job to *ISO (or *USA for that matter).

You may know this, but internally the dates are not stored in a format we
humans would recognize. They are stored as a 10-digit integer. The system
takes care of converting to whatever format is requested at the time. If
you don't specify one, It will default the the job format. At our shop
that's *MDY--perhaps yours is *YMD. In any case, none of the default job
date formats include the 1st of January 0001. Hence, dates as

early as that will cause a data format mapping error.

If the compile listing shows the year portion of the date as something other
than '%y' (lower-case y), then you've got a different problem. an
upper-case Y with either % or @ will work.

cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/28/2013 01:00:03 PM:

----- Message from "Tom Hightower" <tomh@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 27 Nov
2013 17:55:18 -0600 -----

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Re: [COBOL400-L] *ISO date in COBOL?

The programmer working on it says that she's doing the compile like so:

CRTBNDCBL PGM(IDOCKETGY/CCEXTRACT) +
SRCFILE(IDOCKETGY/QCBLSRC) SRCMBR(*PGM) +
OPTION(*SOURCE) CVTOPT(*DATETIME *DATE) +
DBGVIEW(*ALL)

TomH

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