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

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