The format for writing a character string is:
where x is an EBCDIC character. For example,
C'FERN'.
If you want to include a single apostrophe in the string, you must
specify it as two single apostrophes. For example, O’NEILL must
be specified as C'O''NEILL'.
You can use special keywords to specify a character string for
the current date of the run in various forms, as detailed in
z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide.
For example, if you want to select records in which a 10-character
date in the form C'yyyy/mm/dd' starting in position 42 equals today's
date, write:
INCLUDE COND=(42,10,CH,EQ,DATE1(/))
You can also use special keywords to specify a character string
for a future or past date (relative to the current date of the run)
in various forms, as detailed in
z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide. For example, if
you want to select records in which a 10-character date in the form
C'yyyy/mm/dd' starting in position 42 is between 30 days in the past
and 30 days in the future, write:
INCLUDE COND=(42,10,CH,GE,DATE1(/)-30,AND,42,10,CH,LE,DATE1(/)+30)