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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 20, 2022

Omnibus Gateway map file conversion of UTC time values to date time string

Some OMNIbus Gateways produce output where UTC time values need to be written out as a date time string. For example it might be necessary to covert 1666183259 to 'Wed Oct 19 13:40:59 2022' or similar. The gateway mapping file process already provides some conversions on the fly. Refer: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.1?topic=files-map-definition-file It would be useful to extend the gateway conversion functions to also provide a function similar to the ObjectServer's to_char() SQL function, to convert an ObjectServer TIME field, on the fly in a gateway, to a string formatted as a date time stamp.
Idea priority Medium