Intrinsic functions - Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.3.0
The FORMATTED-DATE function converts a date from its integer date form to the requested format.
The function type depends on the type of argument-1 as follows:
Table 1. FORMATTED-DATE function type depending on the argument-1 types
| argument-1 type |
Function type |
| Alphanumeric |
Alphanumeric |
| National |
National |
| UTF-8 |
UTF-8 |
- argument-1
- Must be a national, a UTF-8 or an alphanumeric literal.
- The content of argument-1 must be a date format.
- argument-2
- It must be in integer date form.
- A value in integer date form is a positive integer that represents a number of days succeeding 31 December 1600, in the Gregorian calendar.
It is based on a starting date of Monday, 1 January 1601 and integer date 1 represents Monday, 1 January 1601.
- The INTDATE compiler option affects the starting date for the integer date functions. For details, see
INTDATE.
The returned value is a representation of the date contained in argument-2 according to the format in argument-1.
Example
Given the date format "YYYYMMDD" and the value "143951", which represents the date 15 February 1995, the returned value would be "19950215".
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