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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2014

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Enhance built-in date/time formats to include the SMF date format

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SMF date format - byte packed date format


Definition of the format used to represent dates (OCYYDDD+)

The numbers are written in +ve byte packed decimal.

'0C' is the number of centuries since 1900. All dates in the 21st century have '01'.

'YY' is the year.

'DDD' is the day of the year. The first day of the year is '1' and the last day of the year '366'.

'+' is hard coded as 0xC.



Current formats:

Table 2. Date/time patterns
+-------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+
| |Four-digit years |Two-digit years |
+-------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+
|Year first |YYYYMMDD |YYMMDD |
| |YYYYMMMDD |YYMMMDD |
| |YYYYMmmDD |YYMmmDD |
| |YYYYDDD |YYDDD |
| |YYYYMM |YYMM |
| |YYYYMMM |YYMMM |
| |YYYYMmm |YYMmm |
| |YYYY |YY |
| |YYYYMMDDHHMISS999 | |
+-------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - PL/I Compilers

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - PL/I Compilers

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 12, 2015

    this is part of Enterprise PL/I 4.5

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 3, 2014

    This would be useful

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