DATSEP (Date Separator) Keyword for Display Files--Example

Figure 135 shows how to specify the DATSEP keyword.

Figure 135. Specifying the DATSEP Keyword

|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A
00020A          R RECORD1
00030A            DATFLD2         L  B  5  2DATFMT(*DMY) DATSEP('-')
00040A            DATFLD4         L  B  5 22DATFMT(*JUL) DATSEP(' ')
00050A            DATFLD6         L  B  5 42DATFMT(*JOB) DATSEP(*JOB)
     A

If you want to display the date June 21, 1990, the date format defined in the Job Definition Attributes is *MDY and the date separator defined in the Job Definition Attributes is a slash (/), the following values will be displayed when RECORD1 is written.

DATFLD2    21-06-90
DATFLD4    90 172
DATFLD6    06/21/90