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<sdavis>
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How do you breakdown the DB2 timestamp in Webfocus? How do you extract date and time if a field is defined in DB2 as a timestamp in Webfocus?

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reFOCUSing
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Have you tried the functions HADD, HDATE, HPART or HTIME?

These functions worked for me Wink
 
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<Pietro De Santis>
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DEFINE FILE xxx
USER_EFFECTIVE_DT/YYMD = HDATE(USER_EFFECTIVE_DATE, 'YYMD');
END

This gets you the date. Getting the time seems more complicated. It appears you may have to convert the Date-Time field to alpha and then extract the time from the alpha field.

DEFINE FILE xxx
DATE_TIMEF/A100 = HCNVRT(EFFECTIVE_DATE, '(HYYMDS)', 20, 'A100');
TIMEF/A08 = EDIT(DATE_TIMEF,'$$$$$$$$$$$99:99:99');
END

Note that the EDIT most probably is not completly correct - you may have to modify $$$$$$$$$$$99:99:99 to make it work.

Basically, working with Date/Time fields in WebFOCUS is a pain.
 
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<sdavis>
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We have tried HDATE but we receive unexplainable results. It does not bring the date back as expected.
 
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What Version are you running on? What are the formats for the Field in the Master file description the Actual and usage.
 
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Pietro De Santis' option worked for me.

Thanks a bunch!


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Darin Lee
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In our experience, DB2 understands the timestamp best as an A26 field. For selection criteria, we just generate a value matching the layout (2009-02-24 12:00:00.100000). for calculations we convert the alpha into a smart data and work with it from there.


Regards,

Darin


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