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Current Day (e.g. FRIDAY) using SORT

 
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aniket
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:15 pm    Post subject: Current Day (e.g. FRIDAY) using SORT Reply with quote
Hi, Is there any way by which we can get current day of the week, I mean not the numeric date, but alphabetic day (e.g. FRIDAY) using SORT?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can use a DFSORT symbol for &WDAY or &LWDAY to get a 3-char current day name (e.g. THU for today). Here's an example:

Code:

//S1    EXEC  PGM=ICEMAN     
//SYSOUT    DD  SYSOUT=*     
//SYMNAMES DD *             
DAY,S'&WDAY'                 
//SORTIN DD *               
RECORD 1                     
//SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=*       
//SYSIN    DD    *           
  OPTION COPY               
  INREC BUILD=(C'Today is ',DAY)         
/*


SORTOUT would have:

Code:

Today is THU


Of course, if you really need the full name (e.g. THURSDAY), you could run the 3-character code through DFSORT's CHANGE operand.

If you give more details of what you want to do exactly, I could be more specific.
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