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After about 30 years working with AS400/iSeries/IBMi, I'm still learning! I did not know this was available. This will help with CCSID as well, since I frequently forget to update that until I'm in a query and things don't display properly. Thanks!
Hi Jim,
It's a good suggestion, I do agree this would be easier to set up and I'm not sure why the date format was not added to these interfaces originally. But, as Rudi already stated, you can configure this through existing function with a locale. You should be able to use one of the locales that we ship, like EN_GB for Great Britain English.
For example:
CHGUSRPRF USRPRF(MYUSER) SETJOBATR(*DATFMT) LOCALE('qsys.lib/en_gb.locale')
Only the job attributes specified in SETJOBATR will come from the locale, everything else will be set from the user profile or job description as usual.
I hope you will find this to be simple way to configure the date format for your job without having to wait for a new enhancement.
Hello Jim,
What you want can be achived by using a locale in the userprofile with the desired date format.
For this you need to set the parameter SETJOBATR to the value *DATFMT and the parameter LOCALE with a *LOCALE objectname with the desired date format.
Greetings Rudi
You can add an initial program to a userprofile... and do your CHGJOB in there.