Re: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric

No offence to Bob's method, but why use this:

YYMMDD = %Dec(%date(CCYYMMDD: *ISO0):*YMD);

when you could simply use an overlay:

D DateDS          DS
D   CCYYMMDD                     8A
D     YYMMDD                     6S 0 Overlay(CCYYMMDD:3)

Move your 8-character date into CCYYMMDD and voila - YYMMDD contains your
6-digit numeric date. In fact, you don't need *any* C-specs at all if you
have the YYMMDD overlay defined over the actual 8-character date.

Rory