Re: Want to replace MOVE numeric 8 to numeric 6 in free form

[Paul Therrien <paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern,
Since this appears to be a date can you convert the numeric to a date 
and then do a %dec() on the date to extract the date as 6,0?

MyDate = %date(cnvdt8 : *ISO)
CNVDT6 = %dec(mydate : *YMD)

I assume CNVDT8 is YYYYMMDD and CNVDT6 is YYMMDD.

On 8/17/2013 11:39 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> I've a zoned 8,0 that is being MOVEd to a packed 6,0. I want to convert
> this to free form.
>
> I can think of putting the zoned 8,0 into a data structure with a zoned
> 6,0 overlaying the last 6 positions, then use an assignment statement.
>
> In the following, I wanted to use CNVDAT instead of CNVDT8. That can
> work with fields from a file, didn't work so far, so will use an
> assignment of CNVDT8 = CNVDAT for now.
>
>   * Allow "MOVE" of 8-digit ot 6-digiy
> D DATE8TO6        DS
> D  CNVDT8                        8s 0
> D  CNVDT6                        6S 0 overlay(DATE8TO6 : 3)
>
> Then CNVDT6 should have the value I want - this is 8-digit dates to
> 6-digit in YMD format.
>
> Is there a better way? I looked at several articles - Bob Cozzi, Jon
> Paris, some other forums - none that I saw dealt with the MOVE from a
> longer numeric to shorter.
>
> TIA
> Vern