Re: TIMESTAMP_FORMAT

Hi Stephen

I don't know if anyone gave you this idea - first, timestamp_format will work fine with this - i'm using a constant, but for the Julian date -

timestamp_format('2021025', 'YYYYDDD')

gives you '2021-01-25-00.00.00.000000' for the timestamp value. At least, it did this correctly on our 7.3 box.

If you need the date only, wrap timestamp_format() with date().

Now your JDE value is CMMDDD, right? How about adding 1900000 to that and using the digits function?

timestamp_format(digits(CMMDDD + 1900000), 'YYYYDDD')?

As I type that, I think I saw something like this in another post. Apologies if it has already been suggested.

Cheers
Vern

YYYYMMAA or DDMMYYYY to Julian YYYYDDDD) for that I recommend invoking
(Call) the program X0028, which has the function of convert from Gregorian Date
to Julian and vice versa, once the date has been converted you will have the parameters
with the date in the appropriate format (YYYYDDDD) to be used in any embedded SQL
or as you should use it Best Regards

Sergio -

Thanks for your comments.

I have been working with JDE for almost 40 years, so I am very familiar with all of the JDE callable routines for validating and manipulating data. In this case, my interest is in SQL scripts or SQL queries against the JDE files, and I need the simplest way to query JDE and compare jde date fields OUTSIDE of the JDE software.

Alan's iDate UDF is perfect for that!

Regards,
Steve Landess
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