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One of the IBMers gave a presentation at the recent COMMON on using this - called it Speed Dating!

Vern

On 5/4/2023 8:20 AM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
For DB2 Web Query, IBM recommended a join to another table to do this... I have a file called DATE_CONV. I believe they supplied it with Web Query.

You simply join to it using your date (in your format), then you have access to the date in virtually any format you'd like. You can update the Holiday information yourself... I've found it very useful for many other things.

Field Text Len Dec
DC_DATE Date (date format) 10 L
DC_JDE_JUL JDE Julian Date (CYYDDD decimal) 6 0
DC_MDYY_P Date (MMDDYYYY packed decimal) 8 0
DC_MDYY_Z Date (MMDDYYYY zoned decimal) 8 0
DC_MDYY_C Date (MMDDYYYY character) 8
DC_YYMD_P Date (YYYYMMDD packed decimal) 8 0
DC_YYMD_Z Date (YYYYMMDD zoned decimal) 8 0
DC_YYMD_C Date (YYYYMMDD character) 8
DC_MDY_P Date (MMDDYY packed decimal) 6 0
DC_MDY_Z Date (MMDDYY zoned decimal) 6 0
DC_MDY_C Date (MMDDYY character) 6
DC_YMD_P Date (YYMMDD packed decimal) 6 0
DC_YMD_Z Date (YYMMDD zoned decimal) 6 0
DC_YMD_C Date (YYMMDD character) 6
DC_CC_CHAR Century (2 characters) 2
DC_YY_CHAR Year (2 characters) 2
DC_MM_CHAR Month (2 characters) 2
DC_DD_CHAR Day (2 characters) 2
DC_YEAR Year (4 digits) 9 0
DC_DOW Day of week (1-7) 9 0
DC_DOW_ISO Day of week (1-7) 9 0
DC_DOY Day of year (1-366) 9 0
DC_WOY Week of year (1-52) 9 0
DC_WOY_ISO Week of year (1-53) 9 0
DC_QOY Quarter of year (1-4) 9 0
DC_CC Century (2 digits) 2 0
DC_YY Year (2 digits) 2 0
DC_MM Month (2 digits) 2 0
DC_DD Day (2 digits) 2 0
DC_CCYYMM Century, Year, Month CCYYMM (6 digits) 6 0
DC_DAY_NAM Day Name (Monday,etc.) 9
DC_QTR_NAM Quarter name (2008Q1) 6
DC_WEEKEND Weekend Flag (Y or N) 1
DC_HOLIDAY Holiday (Y or N) 1
DC_BFR_HOL Day Before Holiday (Y or N) 1
DC_AFT_HOL Day AfterHoliday (Y or N) 1
DC_FLL_MN Full Moon (Y or N) 1
DC_SEASON Season (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) 6
DC_FIS_YR Fiscal year (4 digits) 9 0
DC_FIS_QTR Fiscal quarter (1-4) 9 0
DC_MO_NM Month name (January, etc) 9
DC_MO_ABV Month abbreviation (Jan, Feb, etc) 3
DC_JULIAN Date in Julian format 7 0
DC_CYYMMDD CYYMMDD packed C = 0 for 1900 & C = 1 for 7 0
DC_EXCEL Date in Excel format 9 0
DC_WKSTR Week starting date (the prior Saturday) 10 L
DC_WKEND Week ending date (the next Friday) 10 L
DC_SDLY Same day last year 10 L
DC_CDAY Current Day (Y/N) 1
DC_CWEEK Current Week (Y/N) 1
DC_CMONTH Current Month (Y/N) 1
DC_CQTR Current Quarter (Y/N) 1
DC_CYEAR Current Year (Y/N) 1
DC_CYTD Current Year to Date (Y/N) 1
DC_LDAY Current Day Last Year (Y/N) 1
DC_LWEEK Current Week Last Year (Y/N) 1
DC_LMONTH Current Month Last Year (Y/N) 1
DC_LQTR Current Quarter Last Year (Y/N) 1
DC_LYEAR Current Year Last Year (Y/N) 1
DC_LYTD Current Year To Date Last Year (Y/N) 1
DC_PRV_DAY Previous Day (Y/N) 1
DC_PRV_WK Previous Week (Y/N) 1
DC_PRV_MO Previous Month (Y/N) 1
DC_PRV_QTR Previous Quarter (Y/N) 1
DC_PRV_YR Previous Year (Y/N) 1
DC_PRV_FY Previous fiscal year (Y/N) 1
DC_CUR_FY Current fiscal year (Y/N) 1
DC_PRVFYTD Previous fiscal year to date (Y/N) 1
DC_CURFYTD Current fiscal year to date (Y/N) 1
DC_NTH_DOW Nth Day of the Week of the month 9 0


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Hello all,

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?

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