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this was delivered as part of 5.2
Having the fractional part of the seconds as .xxx doesn't really fit ny other pattern we support, HH:MI:SS and HHMISSS, HH:MI etc are good fits. These patterns will also be supported in REPATTERN and all the other date-time functions
Hi prino, thanks for support & comment!
From what i've seen, IBM likes (and i can understand why) to keep RFEs small, manageable and precise as possible.
So while i completely welcome your comment, i assume the chances to get the conversion functions are greater if you submit a straigforward, clear RFE for it.
Just my 0.02€,
br johann
I would greatly second this RFE, but I would like to see it expanded in scope. The various date & Time related builtin functions can convert dates, times and timestamps to just days and seconds, but what is (sorely) lacing is a function that can efficiently convert times in minutes or seconds (as used when adding of subtracting times) back into times in hh:mm(:ss.sss) format.
The (obvious) straight forward method, assuming a time has been converted to minutes, is to use
hh = time / 60;
mm = mod(time, 60);
but a builtin should be able to use the fact that the z/OS DP (divide) instruction calculates both quotient *and* reminder in one, whereas the above, status: V4.R5.M0 (Built:20170125), still generates two DP instructions when hh and mm are the two (final) pic 'z9' and pic '99' destinations.