In ISPF if you open the calendar in the status area and (for my setup) double
click on the 'Day of year' a pop-up allows you to get any ddd/yyyy converted.
<paste>
------------------------ Standard Date ---------------------
Enter the day and year below:
Day . . . . 158 (Between 1 and 365 or 366 if leap year)
Year . . . 2018 (Between 1801 and 2099)
Day 158 of year 2018 is Thursday , 2018/06/07
</paste>
...chris.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Charles Mills
Sent: June-07-18 8:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SYSLOG / OPERLOG displaying date.
I am just talking off the top of my head here but couldn't one write an SDSF
macro where if the user positioned the cursor on a "Julian" date and hit the
appropriate PF key, a pop-up would display the date in a more user-familiar
format?
I know it burns me sometimes. I will do an F whatever PREV on the log and hit
some problem and say "aha! X happened" only to finally realize it happened
three days ago, and that fact did not jump out because "Julian" dates are not
"intuitive."
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 6:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SYSLOG / OPERLOG displaying date.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:21 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, and further, they are called "Julian" dates in the Z community
> and that is a misnomer.
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_
> wiki_Julian-5Fday&d=DwIFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC
> 7E&r=RI5WP1BN1KW_B4HrO2twbFFOhk97OdY6xsy0TwKReZE&m=1q6EkLI-VpOT47EOois
> SoCwovNIjq7Hbgpgf7j0K7is&s=bbbCPheZKUE3shBLIV8MTFQzfvPl8E09UhagbqTZyk0
> &e=
>
> I like one thing about them: they are compact. 18158 is the most
> compact (generally acceptable) way to represent June 7, 2018.
>
> Here are conversion tables if you are interested:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.fs.fed.us_fir
> e_partners_fepp_DODprogram_juliandate.htm&d=DwIFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4
> d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=RI5WP1BN1KW_B4HrO2twbFFOhk97OdY6xsy0TwKRe
> ZE&m=1q6EkLI-VpOT47EOoisSoCwovNIjq7Hbgpgf7j0K7is&s=tXG7NQ58w3q04k_iWo4
> HFC6nzdL4bNW0Ap335eYXJKM&e=
>
​Thanks for that URL. I have a short REXX program which will do it for me using
the DATE() builtin. What my user (really only one left now) would really like
would be something similar to: MM/DD/YYYY.JJJ MON ... She is our single
remaining production scheduler and sometimes peruses the SYSLOG when
researching jobs. Having all that information right there would really help her.
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