The call routine IS8601_CONVERT has been enhanced to allow individual components to be passed. In addition to the current values allowed for 'convert-from' and 'convert-to', this enhancement allows DTn, DUn, and Dn where n can be 1-6, and n different components will be picked up as separate arguments.

Although the individual component arguments are expected to be numeric, character values can be passed and will be converted. The values can be omitted or be missing values, and missing components are then used.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft Windows Server 2008	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Linux for x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Linux on Itanium	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Enterprise x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Home Premium x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Professional 32 bit	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Professional x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Solaris for x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Ultimate x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows Vista	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows Vista for x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Z64	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		z/OS	9.4 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

The new values for 'convert-from' and 'convert-to' are Dtn, DUn, and Dn. This example shows DT6 as the first argument indicating that six variables are used as input for the datetime variable.

---

data temp;
   input y mo d h min s;
   length dt $16;
   call is8601_convert('dt6','start',y,mo,d,h,min,s,dt);
   put dt=$n8601e.;
datalines;
2011 6 . 10 15 20
2011 . 5 10 15 20
2011 6 30 10 15 20
;
run; 

dt=2011-06--T10:15:20.000
dt=2011---05T10:15:20.000
dt=2011-06-30T10:15:20.000

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium
Topic:	SAS Reference ==> CALL routines

Date Modified:	2012-11-16 13:11:13
Date Created:	2012-06-07 10:36:48