Re: Problem solved, Re: Sorting DSPOBJD outfile by ascending date

Hi, James:

Just issue:
CHGJOB JOB(*) DATFMT(*YMD)

Then run your DSPOBJD command.

Then change your job back to the previous date format, if needed.

You will find that all the date fields in the *OUTFILE are formatted according to your current job's date format. :-)

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 6/23/2010 7:41 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Dennis Lovelady wrote:

I believe you will find that they are CMMDDYY fields.

I wish.

From the file's field text itself

Creation:
ODCCEN - Creation century
ODCDAT - Creation date: format- mmddyy
ODCTIM - Creation time

Last Changed:
ODLCEN - Change century
ODLDAT - Change date: format- mmddyy
ODLTIM - Change time

Source Changed (rather perversely):
ODSRCC - Source change century
ODSRCD - Source change date: format- yymmdd
ODSRCT - Source change time

And they're all simple alphanumeric character fields, not L-date,
T-time, or Z-timestamp.

Wrote a little RPG Cycle program to reformat the dates into a second
file, then a CL to do the DSPOBJD, reformat it with the RPG program, and
open it in QuestView (using a VIEW program I'd created, which
encapsulated an OPNQRYF call, as well as suppressing irrelevant fields
from the screen).

A bit Rube Goldberg, but it works.

As to the outfile format for DSPOBJD, I can only say (quoting David
Gerrold):

IBM
UBM
We all BM
for IBM.

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JHHL