How do I add the current date/time to a file in JCL?
For example, from the JCL:
//INPUT DD *
CGQ-TEST.ISQCQ.NET
ASCII
LOCSITE SBD=SYSP.FTP.RCAMSI
SENDSITE
PUT 'TJ.UTJ0IR86.BC814.HDR' BC814001.TMP
APPEND 'TJ.UTJ4IR86.BC(0)' BC814001.TMP
APPEND 'TJ.UTJ0IR86.BC814.TRL' BC814001.TMP
RENAME BC813001.TMP BC814001.TXT
CLOSE
QUIT
I need the file BC814001.TXT to actually be BC814001.20160930.110900.ent, where 20160930.110900 is current date and time (YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS format).
The best way to do this is to use the features of your job scheduling package (Control-M or one of its competitors). It's usually the most maintainable. Talk to your production control staff.
If for some reason that won't work for you, please see this answer.
The convention fd dataset level qualifiers limits you only to 8 characters per section (space between dots) and it should start with a character not a number.
Each name segment (qualifier) is 1 to 8 characters, the first of which must be alphabetic (A to Z) or national (# # $). The remaining seven characters are either alphabetic, numeric (0 - 9), national, a hyphen (-). Name segments are separated by a period (.).
For z/OS environments I would go with 'day of the year' for the actual date. For example in your case - BC814001.D2016274.T110900.ent.
To get the current date and time You can refer to the TSO DATE and TSO TIME via REXX and format them the way You like (examples here http://www.rexxla.org/rexxlang/mfc/datec.html) then pass them as a variable to your SYSIN statement.
Regards,
Jarek.
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Suppose I have 5000 images with following metadata in the LABEL field.
0001 ELEPHANT
0002 ELEPHANT
0003 ELEPHANT
...
4999 ELEPHANT
5000 ELEPHANT
I wish to change the format to:
ELEPHANT-0001
ELEPHANT-0002
ELEPHANT-0003
…
ELEPHANT-4999
ELEPHANT-5000
In other words, I want to do the following for a metadata field of multiple images:
#### NAME —> NAME-####
From what I can gather there could be two ways of doing this
Ignore the current metadata in the images, and reference a (plain text? csv?) file that I prepare separately; or
Read the file's metadata as a string, identify the space and the number preceding the space, save that number, and finally make a new string by concatenating the number and space, and adding a hyphen in between!
Any suggestions?
Expanding upon the answer I gave in the exiftool forums.
The basic command would be
exiftool "-LABEL<${LABEL;s/(\d{4}) (.*)/$2-$1/}" <FileOrDir>
You basically want to copy a tag into the same tag, with some modifications. The option to copy a tag is the less than (or greater than) symbol < or >. A common mistake is to use the equal sign = which is used to assign a static value to a tag.
To do the modification to the tag, it takes the Advance Formatting option, which is actually some in-line perl code. In this example, the tag is treated as a perl string and a regex substitution is used. It matches and captures the first four digits (\d{4}), matches the space (but doesn't capture it), then matches and captures the rest of the tag (.*). The two captures are assigned to the variables $1 and $2, respectively. In the replace half of the substitution $2-$1, the two captures are reversed with the hyphen between them.
To take full advantage of the advance formatting, some basic perl and regex knowledge is helpful.
Once you are sure of the command, you can add -overwrite_original to suppress the generation of backup files and -r to recurse into subdirectories.
I have huge amounts of raw data that are separated by columns. All is well when i import these to Matlab except for the fact that I just saw that the excel files contains different formats for the dates.
One series (i.e 3 days, 1 row or each hour gets 3x24 rows) have its' dates in the format "mm/dd/yyyy" which neither excel or matlab recognizes as proper dates.
I've tried solving this problem in different ways. First i tried to just highlight the cells and use the function format cells, but this didn't work since excel doesn't see them as 'cells' but rather as 'text'.
Then i tried the Text to columns function which didn't work either (delimited or fixed width).
Im really stuck and would appreciate some help with this.
In Excel:
If cell A1 has a string like mm/dd/yyyy then try this:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4), LEFT(A1,2), MID(A1,4,2))
In Matlab:
=datenum(yourDateString, 'mm/dd/yyyy')
Select the desired range to fix and use this script:
Sub bulk_Date_fix()
on error resume next
Set d_ranged = Selection
For Each a In d_ranged
a.Value = Split(a.Value, "/")(0) & "/" & Split(a.Value, "/")(1) & "/" & Split(a.Value, "/")(2)
Next
on error goto 0
End Sub
How it works: The above script loops through all the cells in the selected area and splits out the various attributes of a date based on the "/" symbol.
I examined your file and you will need to go back to the source data to straighten this out. Instead of "opening" the file in Excel, you will need to IMPORT the file. When you do that, the text import wizard will open, and you can then designate the date column as being of the format DMY (or whatever format is being generated by the source).
The problem is that there is a mismatch between the format of the file, and your Windows Regional Short date format. If you look at Row 229, you will see that real dates are present, but out of sequence with the rest.
Excel parses dates being input according to the Windows Regional Short Date settings. If the date doesn't make sense, according to that parsing (e.g. month > 12) , Excel will interpret the date as a string; if the date does make sense, it will be interpreted as a date in accordance with that windows regional date component order, and this will be different from what is intended.
So the first few hundred dates are strings, but at line 229, the date, which is probably meant to be 12 OCT 2014, gets changed to 10 DEC 2014. This will happen in other areas where that value in the 2nd position is 12 or less.
EDIT: I am not certain of the variabilities inherent in using XL on the MAC. In the Windows version of XL, the "text import" feature is on the Data Ribbon / Get External Data Tab:
When you click on that and open a text file, you will see the Text Import Wizard, and when you get to Step 3, you will be able to specify the text format of the data to be imported:
I've prepared a macro in Notepad++ to transform a ldif file in a csv file with a few fields. Everything is OK but I have a final problem: I have to have 2 fields with a specific length and in this moment I cannot ensure that length because in the source file they are not coming so
For instance, I generate this line:
12345,namenamename,123456
And I have to ensure that the 2nd and 3rd fields have 30 (filling with spaces at right side) and 9 (filling with zeros at left) characters, so in this case I should generate:
12345,namenamename ,000123456
I haven't found how Notepad++ could match a pattern in order to add spaces/zeros, so I have though in to add 1 space/zero to the proper field and repeat this step so many times as needed to ensure the lengths (this is, 29 and 8, because they cannot come empty) and search with the length in the regex (for instance: \d{1,8} for the third field)
My question is: can I repeat only one step of the macro several times (and the rest of the macro only 1 repetition)?
I've read the wiki related to this point (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Editing_Configuration_Files#.3CMacros.3E) and I don't found anything neither
If not possible, how could be a good solution? Create another 2 different macros and after execute the main one, execute this new 2 macros several times?
Thanks in advance!
A two pass solution with Notepad++ is possible. Find a pair of characters or two short sequence of characters that never occurs in your data file. I will use =#<= and =>#= here.
First pass, generate or convert the input text into the form 12345,=#<=namenamename______________________________,000000000123456=>#=. Ie add 30 spaces after the name and nine zeroes before the number (underscores used here just to make things clearer).
Second pass, do a regular expression search for =#<=(.{30})_*,0*(\d{9})=>#= and replace with \1,\2.
I have just suggested a similar solution in special timestamp format of csv
As an absolute beginner to SAS I quickly ran into problems with date formatting.
I have a dataset containing transaction with three types of dates: BUSDATE, SPOTDATE, MATURITY. Each transaction is represented on two lines, and I want BUSDATE and SPOTDATE from line 1 but MATURITY from line 2.
In the original set, the dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format.
DATA masterdata;
SET sourcedata(rename(BUSDATE=BUSDATE2 SPOTDATE=SPOTDATE2 MATURITY=MATURITY2));
BUSDATE=BUSDATE2;
SPOTDATE=SPOTDATE2;
IF TRANS_TYPE='Swap' THEN;
MATURITY=SPOTDATE;
RUN;
Problem is, this returns something like 17169 (which I guess is the number of days from a certain date).
How can I make it output in YYYY-MM-DD format - or is this approach wrong; should I first convert the date variables to some SAS date format?
if you have valid SAS dates, just add a FORMAT statement to your DATA STEP.
Format busdate spotdate maturity yymmdd10. ;
SAS dates are numeric variables. They represent the number of days since 1/1/1960. You use a FORMAT to display dates.
Adding to CarolinaJay's answer, you normally want to keep them as numeric format, since you can do math (like "# of days since date X") with them. However, if for some reason you need a character variable, you can do this:
date_As_char=put(datevar,YYMMDD10.);
Incidentally, YYMMDD10 will actually give you YYYY-MM-DD, as you asked for; if you want a different separator, see http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000589916.htm (YYMMDDxw. format) - if you put a letter after the last D, for certain letters, you get a different separator. Like, YYMMDDn10. gives you no separator, or YYMMDDs10. gives you slashes. YYMMDDd10. gives you dashes, just like omitting the letter would. This concept also applies to MMDDYY formats, and I think a few others.
I'm trying to set up an error check between two systems and need to compare week numbers in different formats. One system produces week numbers in a text format e.g "8-15, 18, 31-32" and the other produces discrete values. How would I see whether a value e.g 16 fell within a multiple range like the one above?
It's part of a bigger issue where I'm checking a reference number, day, time and week number (e.g XXX111 Weds 9:00 9) in one system against the output of another system (e.g XXX111 Wed 9:00 7:11, 13, 16, 52-63 or XXX111 Thu 9:00 5, 6, 11-16). Despite lots of searching I've hit a wall with the bit above so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'd rather not use VBA if possible. Thanks in advance for your wisdom.
Assumed:
7:11 should be 7-11
63 should be 53
A number not part of a range (eg 18) is not a problem
Ranges are in Text format
I hope the following helps or at least is ‘a step in the right direction’:
A Parse the components
Eg for 8-15, 18, 31-32, paste into a cell (say A1) and Data > Data Tools - Text to Columns > Delimited > Next > check Comma, Space and Treat consecutive delimiters as one > Next > Select Columns as required > select Text for each > Finish
May be easier to deal with a single column so select data, Copy > Select A2 > Paste Special > Transpose > OK and Delete contents of Row1.
B Add your search value (16) into B1
C Copy the formula below into B2 and copy down as required:
=AND(B$1>=VALUE(LEFT($A2,SEARCH("-",$A2)-1)),B$1<=VALUE(RIGHT($A2,LEN($A2)-SEARCH("-",$A2)))))
The result should be TRUE where the search value is within or on either bound of the discrete range:
The formula uses the hyphen to ‘recognise’ a discrete range. SEARCH looks for where it is positioned (because there could be one or two characters either side of it). LEFT and RIGHT are for the lower and upper bounds (in the case of RIGHT used in conjunction with LEN to address whether the upper bound is one or two characters). VALUE is required to convert the Text into something that can be equated to the search value. AND is for the process to consider both bounds in determining whether ‘in range’.
“I’d rather not use VBA if possible” – but might be advisable!
However, use of some fixed references ($) should make it a little easier than otherwise with standard formulae only because the given discrete ranges (which may be appended in ColumnA) can be queried for various search values by copying the formulae across to the right/down as required and entering (as Number format) further search values in Row1.