Re: decimal delimiter mods on the fly...

Don <dr2@cssas400.com> wrote:

>we need to be able to run reports for different countries on the same CPU.
>Not a biggie conceptually, except that we need to be able to change the
>decimal delimeters from ',' to '.' and back on the fly depending on the
>user profile running the job...and I don't want to have to suggest that we
>change programs or customize edit codes...

I'd suggest adding some routing data to the jobd of the jobs requiring a comma
delimiter to identify them, eg. 'DECMFT(I)'. Add a routing entry to the batch
subsystem to detect them and route them to your own routing program. The routing
program would then issue a CHGJOB DECFMT(I) before calling QCMD. The same scheme
should also work for interactive users if you wanted to support them in multiple
countries.

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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