Notation for eras
Calendars based on eras use unique picture strings to identify the eras. The era picture string begins with a less than character (<) and ends with the greater than character (>). The characters between the less than and greater than characters are the era name in DBCS characters.
- Japanese Era
- The six-character string <JJJJ>. An example of specifying the Japanese Meiji era would be to specify X'0E45A645840F' where the X'0E' and X'0F' are the less than character (<) and greater than character (>), respectively. Refer to z/OS Language Environment Programming Reference for the Japanese eras used by Language Environment date and time services.