Comments on: Validate date in COBOL/400

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:02:43 +0000

I have date in yyyymmdd format.

Does that mean it’s not a DATE, but it’s a character or numeric variable instead? If so, then you need to convert it to a DATE or convert your DATE values to match the variable type.

…the intrinsic function like that in COBOL are not working…

Which function? If we don’t know the function, we can’t help with any errors.

What does your programming look like? We can’t tell what might be wrong if we can’t look at it. We need to see the instructions together with any related data definitions.

Tom

By: LetItBe

LetItBe — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:17:26 +0000

If it is because you are comparing yyyymmdd to a date range in ddmmyyyy format – then you need to make the dates a compatible format in working storage. Convert 01012012 to 20120101 and 05042014 to 20140504 – then a comparing to a yyyymmdd value will work.

By: LetItBe

LetItBe — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:11:31 +0000

Date-to-check = 20120515fromdate = 20120101thrudate = 20140405If date-to-check > fromdateand date-to-check < thrudate perform xxxxxxwhy doesn’t that work? I don’t understand the problem.