RE: [WDSCI-L] re: COBOL Question

["Bruce.Vest" <Bruce.Vest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Claus.  I saw that and figured out how people here could use it to
simplify some of their code - it's a great way to extract parts of a
date/time/timestamp value and format the result at the same time.  Still
haven't found an easy way to get the system timestamp into a COBOL program
though.  Finally I cheated and used RPG to return a timestamp into a COBOL
field defined as "FORMAT TIMESTAMP".  At that point the COBOL can use the
EXTRACT-DATE-TIME function (and the ADD/SUBTRACT duration, etc.) to
manipulate the timestamp any way they need.

THANKS and keep up the good work - it's REALLY appreciated,
Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Claus Weiss
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:58 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] re: COBOL Question





I am by far no COBOL expert, but what our COBOL guys here suggested is
this:

In ILE COBOL,  use EXTRACT-DATE-TIME .

Hope this helps

Claus Weiss Visual AD tools, email: weiss@xxxxxxxxxx
Dept 522 IBM Canada Lab tie 969-3987 Phone(905)413-3987 FAX(905)413-4850
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