Prompt override program and dates

Loyd,

So long as you want the date separators to appear on the prompt then
the quotes are needed.  On the prompt display it may appear that you
can directly key in the separators, but if you do and then use F14 you'll
see that the prompter is just adding the quotes for you (under the
covers).  Likewise if you want the separators when specifying the Date
on a command line prior to prompting, you again must use the quotes.

Without the quotes the system is interpreting the separator as an
operator, and that's not allowed.

Bruce Vining

>
>I have a prompt override program, returning a date to a command. The
>command parameter for the date is defined as:
>PARM KWD(DATE) TYPE(*DATE) MIN(1) PROMPT('Date')
>
>The POP works fine, except that I must return the date inside quote
>marks: '09/15/1998'. Subsequently, the quote marks appear in the
>command's input field.
>
>I would like to return the date without quote marks, so it appears as
>Date . . . 09/15/1998   instead of
>Date . . . '09/15/1998'
>
>I tried using EXPR(*YES) on the DATE keyword, but that isn't allowed.
>
>Are there any suggestions?
>
>Thank you,
>Loyd Goodbar
>

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