RE: date conversion

Couldn't agree more ... was just going to post response to do that.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John Rusling via MIDRANGE-L
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2023 6:49 AM
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Subject: Re: date conversion

Hi Bill,

When you get it fleshed out, it'd be nice to see the sql statement.

John

Thanks for all the great replies! All great options!
Decided to go with the statistics table. The last used date is already in timestamp format. Thanks again!
[Bill]

I have what is surely a simple question but I can't seem to find an answer to it.
I have a work file that I've created that contains the output of the DSPOBJD command for a particular library.
This file has the field ODUDAT, which is the date last used field.
It's a character field in the MMDDYY format.
I'm using Run SQL Scripts in ACS to then query this file, but I'd like to convert this date
to YYYYMMDD format so that I can order the query results by the most recent date.
The only way I can find that comes close to working so far is just to substring
the ODUDAT field into the month, day, and year portions and then play with it that way.
I'm sure there's a more elegant method that will just yield a YYYYMMDD field. Thoughts?
[Bill]

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