RE: Prompt override program and dates

OK, I just looked at that myself (F14). It's a training issue I must
address (how to change the date in the command, etc.)

Thanks,
Loyd Goodbar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bvining@VNET.IBM.COM [SMTP:bvining@VNET.IBM.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 12:35 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      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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