IBM Mainframe Forum

Do you know how to browse a data set displaying the data in hexadecimal?

Is this what you are referring too?

Ç5
6F
85
--
0N
FD
05
--
Åà
64
74
--
Åà
64
74
--
0N
FD
05
--

Well, these are certainly not ordinal (oft miscalled "Julian") dates. They could be reduced or Dublin Julian day numbers, but that leads to some rather odd interpretations. I don't think I care to draw this out any further.

mail4rsb,

It may be possible in SORT, but since your input is non-standard, we'd need to know how to interpret those values. We'd need to know what the Assembler program is doing.

Hello,

Might this value just be the number of days from some fixed date in the past?

Another idea that just occurred to me is the 16 bits are ordered like yyyyyyyddddddddd, where yyyyyyy is the year, though whether it starts in 1900, or so other year I won't try to guess, and ddddddddd is the day of year. This is just a variation on the method MS-DOS used to store the date in a directory entry. If my guess is correct, I doubt if sort can do the translation you want.