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The format IxxDHMS is now available in DEFINE and COMPUTE fields. Please see the detailed documentation in the 2.3.0 New Features Guide under "Duration of Time" at http://ibm.biz/db2wq-newfeats.
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My post from 20 Jun 2017 contains examples (see below)
or ask GregTBF (see his post from 13 Apr 2017) - he understand our needs.
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Summing up the number of seconds and converting the total seconds to hh:mm:ss is understandable.
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Hi, anything new about this request?
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Hi,
I'll try to answer your questions.
Summing up the number of seconds and converting the total seconds to hh:mm:ss is understandable?
Why understandable ? But this was only an idea.
e.g. your daily working hours. make a report of your daily working hours by month. make a sum of your working hours to get the monthly working hours in the summary line.
the idea was to convert the hours and minutes to seconds (in background) sum it up and convert the summary line to the choosen format.
1. e.g. add 14:25:33 and 18:22:37 you should get 32:48:10 (depending of the choosen format it could also be 1d 8:48:10)
2. I only expect that the examples above will work. But I agree with greg, the best solution would be a new data type "duration"
regards
Thank you for the request. I have read the forum entries but would like to get more details on the expected output.
Summing up the number of seconds and converting the total seconds to hh:mm:ss is understandable. But a couple questions:
1. What happens when the total exceeds 24 hours? An error?
2. For such a function, what input would you expect it to take? Just an integer (seconds)? Two timestamps (start/stop)?
At a minimum - create a function that converts seconds or minutes to hhhh:mm:ss
This is a relatively common requirement. To do this right, you would almost need to create a "duration" data type.