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Hi,

Input file contains



I need to validate the jobA time is greater than 02:00 means output file should look like below format



Is it possible??

Thanks..

But JOBA is not greater than 02:00 ?

Please explain

Yes. Always with times, you'll inevitably need the date as well, if anything can ever occur around midnight.

In the bland instance that you have, there is no problem with comparing "00:31" or "00:51" to "02:00", you just do it is CHaracter fields. Because the ":" is in a fixed position in all cases and because the characters decrease in significance right-to-left, it'll work - until you cross midnight.

If it is not greater than 02:00 output file should be in below format

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
JOBA 00:31
JOBB 00:51
Jobs completed

Billy, can you explain me in the code..

Where are you getting the time from?

JESMSGLG info will be extracted into i/p dataset

I mean, the "02:00", which is presumably not a "static" value, but one you want to change?

02:00 is a constant value. We need to validate the input with this time 02:00 or whatever the time we are given it need to validate with input.

OK, we'll perhaps need more detail about exactly what you want, but:

Define the time-to-compare-to as a symbol, on the SYMNAMES DD statement. Include a SYMNOUT DD statement so that you get a listing of the "normalised" symbols.






This is just to show the comparison. Expect it to appear in unexpected places.

To get the information from the detail line to the final line, again it will need GROUP and PUSH. But we need more information.

Is it just two jobs, always, involved, or what?

If one is complete and the other not, what do you want?