RE: CVTDAT TOSEP(*NONE) not working?

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

We're all nobodies here or somewhere! 

Read your other post, and I think it'd have been good of IBM to be more 
explicit about this, so that we don't need to draw conclusions about separators 
from the length of the result field. JMHO!

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From: "Exterior Wood" <tnonamaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> If you would just read the help, you could figure this out 
>
> See my prev post below that no one seems to have read because I'm a nobody 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Exterior Wood 
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:58 AM 
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' 
> Subject: RE: CVTDAT TOSEP(*NONE) not working? 
>
> Converting any of these formats will leave the separators in: 
> *ISO, *USA, *EUR, *JIS 
>
> When you are entering the cvtdat cmd and prompt it and then prompt for the 
> help text, when you scroll down to the section that says 
>
> Field Size and Minimum Variable Length 
>
> When you look at the *Iso line it basically shows that the ToSep is 
> Disregarded (does not show the ToSep as an option). 
> Which is reflected in the min field size of 10 
>
> The other formats such as *mdy show either ToSep options of Any or None 
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rick baird 
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:26 AM 
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
> Subject: Re: CVTDAT TOSEP(*NONE) not working? 
>
> Jonathon. I agree. that's most likely the case. 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Rick 
>
> On 7/7/06, Jonathan Mason wrote: 
> > Hi Rick 
> >
> > Just a thought, but as *ISO is defining the ISO standard of "yyyy-mm-dd" 
> > which includes hyphen separators, I would think that the TOSEP(*NONE) is 
> > logically incompatible. If you want "yyyymmdd" then you should use 
> > TOFMT(*YYMMDD) instead. 
> >
> > All the best 
> >
> > Jonathan 
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rick baird 
> > Sent: 07 July 2006 15:49 
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
> > Subject: CVTDAT TOSEP(*NONE) not working? 
> >
> > hey all, 
> >
> > i'm at V5R3. I have the following CL code: 
> >
> > DCL VAR(&DATE ) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6) 
> > DCL VAR(&ISO ) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) 
> >
> > RTVJOBA DATE(&DATE) 
> > CVTDAT DATE(&DATE) TOVAR(&ISO) TOFMT(*ISO) + 
> > TOSEP(*NONE) 
> >
> > when done, &ISO has the following value: 
> >
> > '2006-07-06' 
> >
> > Tosep *NONE doesn't seem to be working? any ideas? 
> >
> > Thanks, 
> >
> > Rick 
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