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

This is interesting, Rob! What and when?

Has IBM changed output file
formats in the past? Yes.

If we were all using APIs instead of DSPOBJD (as you say the vendors who do
it right are doing), this would be a non-issue, so why do we care?
Personally, I stopped using DSPOBJD except for Q&D CL back in V2R3. I
thought everyone had.

Dennis Lovelady
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Tried to play my shoehorn... all I got was footnotes!

Personally I don't care WHY it works that way. Wish it were different.
True date field would be best. Second best would be YYYYMMDD.
Disruptive? Yes. If they changed it would customers have to change
code?
Yes. Do I care? No. Would vendors care? Not those that do things
right and use list api's instead of outfiles. Has IBM changed output
file
formats in the past? Yes.

Have you submitted a DCR? Has anyone else? Have I (on this)? No.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/24/2010 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Problem solved, Re: Sorting DSPOBJD outfile by
ascending date
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Hi, James:

Ouch! I even tried CHGSYSVAL QDATFMT 'YMD' and then ran my DSPOBJD, but
to no avail...

I thought that someone would have entered a PMR or DCR about this by
now
... And what about all the folks in countries where MDY is not the
popular choice for date format? This seems to have been a very strange
choice by IBM.

Does anyone know why this works this way?

Thanks,

Mark

> On 6/24/2010 11:35 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

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

Then run your DSPOBJD command.

That was the very first thing I tried. Only the "Display Date" is in

job

date format.