Arithmetic operations in SYNCSORT

Aravind_mf · New User Joined: 06 Mar 2009 Posts: 9 Location: chennai

Hi,
I have two files with 1 record in each file. The file is in the format CCYYMMDDHHMMSS. Starting position 1 and End position 14 in both files.

Ex: File1 contains 20090621152250 and file 2 contains 20090621112143

my requirement is to see if the time difference (time part in File1 - time part File2)is GE to 4 hours. ( i.e 152250 - 112143 should be >= 4 hours).
I would like to get a RC16 if the condition fails else RC0.

My shop will support only SYNCSORT. Please help me in acheiving this requirement.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject:

Hello,

Suggest you proceed with program code.

Sort products are not designed to do date/time arithmetic.

Aravind_mf · New User Joined: 06 Mar 2009 Posts: 9 Location: chennai

Thanks dick.

I completed the above requirement in a COBOL program

dick scherrer

Good to hear it is working - thanks for the update

d