Re: SQL list *OUTFILE of DSPOBJD by date

On 08 Apr 2013 14:38, Stone, Joel wrote:

I would like to list the *OUTFILE of DSPOBJD by date.

Since DSPOBJD provides the incredibly ugly date format MMDDYY, I
would like to convert it to a date with year 99 going to the end of
the descending order.

What is a good method to do this?

Do I have to construct the date such as shown below?

But even then the year 99 pops to the top (it should be at the end).

I think I have to use DATE and CHAR and TRIM to build the date.

How do I force it to take MMDDYY and calc 1900 or 2000?

*MDY??

Is there a simpler, better way? <<SNIP>>

Try using the TIMESTAMP_FORMAT scalar. I am not sure if YY uses the 100-year window of the database, but I would hope so. Otherwise RR might suffice. That should be sufficient without the ODCCEN taken into account [until 2040 creation dates]. Otherwise a CASE expression or an addition can easily resolve the century portion.

ORDER BY TIMESTAMP_FORMAT(ODCDAT, 'MMDDYY') DESC

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/db2/rbafzscatsformat.htm
IBM i 7.1 Information Center -> Database -> Reference -> SQL reference -> Built-in functions -> Scalar functions
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"The TIMESTAMP_FORMAT function returns a timestamp Start of changethat is based on the interpretation of the input string using the specified formatEnd of change.

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