Date API's

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Can anyone direct me to some IBM Date API's for Validating Dates. We have some old CL programs that I would like to validate the date the user key's in. Thank You

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John, I have used CVTDAT and monitored for a message. Something like: DCL &DATEIN *CHAR 10 DCL &DATEOUT *CHAR 10 DCL &DATEERR *LGL ... Some code to set &DATEIN CVTDAT &DATEIN &DATEOUT FROMFMT(*MDY) TOFMT(*MDY) TOSEP(*NONE) MONMSG CPF0000 EXEC(CHGVAR &DATEERR '1') ... If you are using a message subfile in your program, this will work very well as the message will be sent. David Morris

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If you are looking for API's versus a CL command, you will find various date API's in the ILE CEE API's section and the Miscellaneous API's section of the System API Reference manual. Good luck!

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I recommend the ILE CEE date API's. Well worth using. I wrote an application a couple of years ago to do all the date conversion and validation I need, and it hums along, year after year. No maintenance, so far, even.

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On June '98 MC Magazine published such utility "Dressing Up Your Dates".