The developer is migrating from VisualAge to EGL and to COBOL using the migration utility. He has a mismatch between the current date format in

Visual Age (YYYY-MM-DD) and the COBOL generated format vgVar.currentFormattedGregorianDate  DD/MM/YYYY.

He suggests we change the EGL Runtime Option currentFormattedGregorianDate to match the VisualAge format. However I am reluctant to change this as

other EGL COBOL programs may already be using the current EGL Runtime format.

The developer has 300 programs to convert, so it may not be practical to modify every program to the new format.

Is there any other way he can achieve the change in the date format, through parameters in  the Migration utility or otherwise.

What date format are you asking?

To get date from EZEDTE and EZEDTEL.

Its is the EZEDTELC which is VGVar.currentFormattedGregorianDate in EGL

Ok ! There are two way.

1. From Rational Cobol Runtime, you need setup Date Format. I don't remember which panel page in Rational Cobol Runtime installation guide. but it's very simple.

2. From EGL Build option has a parameter dateFormat.

Regards

Haieh

1. The COBOL Runtime setting may not be possible as other programs may be using the existing date format.

2. Does the dateFormat Build option apply to COBOL as well or is this only for Java

1. I do not know why you can not change the date format in Cobol Runtime. But you can setup Cobol Runtime for more than one target NLS and this way for each target NLS to have a different date format. example: have one date format for the target NLS ENU and another one for the target NLS EUR. And when generating COBOL you need to inform the target NLS in the EGL Build option that you want to run. Do not forget if you have a table part with ENU suffix you will have to change or duplicate the table part to suffix EUR.

2. Date format support any system and it overlaps what is setup in Cobol Runtime.

Regards,

Hsieh

Thanks. I think I will go  with the multiple NLS in Cobol Runtime