Specifies the explicit date format to use when date values are returned from SQL Server date columns in character output host variables.
When used in addition to DETECTDATE, specifies the explicit data format to recognize in character input host variables.
Restriction: This topic documents DATE as used as an HCOSS SQL compiler directive option and therefore assumes that you have set DIALECT=MAINFRAME. For information on using DATE as a generic SQL compiler directive option, see
DATE under
SQL Compiler Directive Options. For information on the DIALECT HCOSS SQL compiler directive option, see
DIALECT.
Syntax
DATE={ODBC | ISO | USA | EUR | JIS}
Parameters:
- ODBC
- yyyy-mm-dd (SQL Server default format)
- ISO
- yyyy-mm-dd (mainframe default format)
- USA
- mm/dd/yyyy
- EUR
- dd.mm.yyyy
- JIS
- yyyy-mm-dd
Properties:
| Default:
|
ISO (mainframe default format)
|
Dependencies:
To use DATE, you must also set DIALECT=MAINFRAME.
For input host parameters, requires that the DETECTDATE HCOSS SQL compiler directive option also be set.
Scope:
| Used at compile time:
|
Yes
|
| Behavior at run time:
|
Source file
|
See
Scope - HCOSS SQL Compiler Directive Options for more information.
Comments:
DATE changes the display format of output host variables as specified.
Note: If you do not specify an alternative format using DATE, HCOSS returns your SQL Server date columns using mainframe ISO format in your output character host variables by default, as specified in the
Properties section of this topic.
When you specify both DATE and DETECTDATE, HCOSS uses DATE to recognize date values in your input host variables. See
DETECTDATE for more information.
