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determines the character field is in one of the these forms, it converts it to the
date to-field. The date portion of the character field must be left justified and
can contain trailing blanks.
v For converting a character field to a time field, the minimum length required for
the character field is 4. The system first determines if the character field data is
in the same format and has the same separator as specified in the current job
under which the copy command is running. This may be *HMS for the format
and colon (:), comma (,), period (.), or blank ( ) for the separator. If the character
field is not in the current job specified format and separator form, the system
determines if it is in one of the SAA formats (*ISO, *USA, *EUR, or *JIS). If the
system determines the character field is in one of these forms, it converts it to
the time to-field. The time portion of the character field must be left justified
and can contain trailing blanks.
v For converting a character field to a timestamp field, the minimum length
required for the character field is 14. The system first determines if the character
field data is in one of the following:
– SAA format
– YYYYMMDDHHMMSS form
If the system determines the character field is in one of these forms, it converts
it to the timestamp to-field. The timestamp portion of the character field must be
left justified and can contain trailing blanks.
When converting a date, time, or timestamp field to a character field;
FMTOPT(*MAP) is specified; and the corresponding from and to-file field names
match; the system attempts to convert the date, time, or timestamp field into the
form specified by the current job. The following applies:
v For converting a date field to a character field, the minimum length required for
the character field is 6. The system first determines the date format and
separator attribute of the current job under which the copy command is running.
This may be *MDY, *DMY, *YMD, or *JUL for the format and slash (/), hyphen
(-), period (.), comma (,), or blank ( ) for the separator. The date field is
converted into the character field in the specified format of the current job. For
character fields that are longer than required for the conversion, the data is left
justified and trailing blanks are added.
v For converting a time field to a character field, the minimum length required for
the character field is 8. The system first determines the time separator attribute
of the current job under which the copy command is running. This may be colon
(:), comma (,), period (.), or blank ( ). The time field is converted into the
character field in the *HMS format (including the specified separator of the
current job). For character fields that are longer than required for the conversion,
the data is left justified and trailing blanks are added.
v For converting a timestamp field to a character field, the minimum length
required for the character field is 14. The timestamp field is converted into the
character field in the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS form (no separators). For character
fields that are longer than required for the conversion, the data is left justified
and trailing blanks are added.
When converting a zoned decimal field to a date, time, or timestamp field,
FMTOPT(*MAP) is specified and the corresponding from- and to-field names
match, the system assumes the zoned decimal field is in the form specified by the
current job. The following applies:
v For converting a zoned decimal field to a date field, the system assumes the
zoned decimal field data is in the same date format (no separators) as specified
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