Re: TIMESTAMP_FORMAT

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephen

I don't know if anyone gave you this idea - first, timestamp_format will 
work fine with this - i'm using a constant, but for the Julian date -

timestamp_format('2021025', 'YYYYDDD')

gives you '2021-01-25-00.00.00.000000' for the timestamp value. At 
least, it did this correctly on our 7.3 box.

If you need the date only, wrap timestamp_format() with date().

Now your JDE value is CMMDDD, right? How about adding 1900000 to that 
and using the digits function?

timestamp_format(digits(CMMDDD + 1900000), 'YYYYDDD')?

As I type that, I think I saw something like this in another post. 
Apologies if it has already been suggested.

Cheers
Vern

> > YYYYMMAA or DDMMYYYY to Julian YYYYDDDD) for that I recommend invoking
> > (Call) the program X0028, which has the function of convert from Gregorian Date
> > to Julian and vice versa, once the date has been converted you will have the parameters
> > with the date in the appropriate format (YYYYDDDD) to be used in any embedded SQL
> > or as you should use it Best Regards
> Sergio -
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> I have been working with JDE for almost 40 years, so I am very familiar with all of the JDE callable routines for validating and manipulating data.  In this case, my interest is in SQL scripts or SQL queries against the JDE files, and I need the simplest way to query JDE and compare jde date fields OUTSIDE of the JDE software.
>
> Alan's iDate UDF is perfect for that!
>
> Regards,
> Steve Landess
> 512-289-0387