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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day > > 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://www.fs.fed.us/fire/partners/fepp/DODprogram/juliandate.htm > ​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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
