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Status Future consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Categories z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 24, 2024

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IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi,

The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the century at the start of the sliding century window which is selected.
Samples should be supplemented with dates that select the century at the end of the sliding century window, as well as samples with the default value of 50 for the pivot year.
For a better understanding, the current reference year should also be always the same, and in relation to the actual current year, currently 2024.

See attachment for other samples, and an illustration for century determination.

Same remark for DAY-TO-YYYYDDD.

Thanks.

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Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
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    |     Apr 10, 2024

    This is a valid request and is being accepted.

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