I have a DB2 file w/ two sets of Date Fields and two sets of Time Fields providing the start and stop time for a transaction.

I've spent 6 hours today searching the Forum and Help text trying to come up with a way convert those to date-time fields and determine the elapsed seconds between the time. My head hurts, so I'm asking for help

FILENAME=MNTWL101, SUFFIX=DB2     ,
 REMARKS='WOTS - Labor Tracking', $
  SEGMENT=MNTWL101, SEGTYPE=S0,
    DESCRIPTION='WOTS - Labor Tracking', $
    FIELDNAME=WLSDT, ALIAS=WLSDT, USAGE=MDY, ACTUAL=DATE,
      TITLE='Clock-In,Date', DESCRIPTION='Clock-In Date', $
    FIELDNAME=WLSTM, ALIAS=WLSTM, USAGE=HHIS, ACTUAL=HHIS,
      TITLE='Clock-In,Time', DESCRIPTION='Clock-In Time', $
    FIELDNAME=WLTDT, ALIAS=WLTDT, USAGE=MDY, ACTUAL=DATE,
      TITLE='Clock-Out,Date', DESCRIPTION='Clock-Out Date', $
    FIELDNAME=WLTTM, ALIAS=WLTTM, USAGE=HHIS, ACTUAL=HHIS,
      TITLE='Clock-Out,Time', DESCRIPTION='Clock-Out Time', $

To create a Date-Time w/ the HINPUT, I need to get the file's Dates and Times to AlphaNumeric fields.

I can get the date to be AlphaNumeric, but is there a better option?

DEFINE FILE MNTWL101
     D9DAT1/A8YYMD = WLSDT;
     D9DAT2/A10 = D9DAT1;
END

I cannot figure out a way to convert the time field to be AlphaNumeric. Please help me?

Additionally, I'd prefer to convert a Date Field (WLSDT) and Time Field (WLSTM) directly to a Date-Time field. If you can give me code to do that, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

Do some research on HDATE and HTIME. See if that helps

HDATE and HTIME go from Date-Time fields to Date or Time fields. I need to go the other direction.

Are you saying that HDATE/HTIME can go from Date Field or Time Field to Date-Time Field?

Please check the documentation.

HDTTM: Converting a Date Value to a Date-Time Value

TIMETOTS: Converting a Time to a Timestamp

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