Re: Cobol CMP or COMP Date Format and Converstion to "Real" Dates

On Oct 15, 2019, at 5:16 PM, Krill, Coy <CKrill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a data extract that came from an IBM mainframe cobol shop. They have a few date and time fields that basically look weird to me and I'm trying to figure out how to convert them to readable dates. The data in the fields are packed decimal 9,0 for date and 7,0 for the time. Based on a few other date and time fields that look normal but are always populated, the data 979859388 as a date is probably 2014-06-12 and the time 9818382 is probably 11:16:16. Has anyone had any experience with these and knows what gyrations I need to go through to convert them? They are the only date and times consistently populated so I'd like to know what they are to extract them for the folks who will be using them.


Coy Krill
Core Processing Team Lead
Washington Trust Bank


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