RE: Passing in a date into STRQMQRY

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midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. Re: Passing in a date into STRQMQRY (Vern Hamberg)
>
>STRQMQRY QMQRY(ROUTINES/SYSDOWNQM1) SETVAR((PROMPTDATE '''2003-05-01'''))
>
>BTW, in CL with STRQMQRY, I usually have a variable
>
>DCL &APOST *CHAR 1 ''''


I've started DCL'ing a similar variable but I use it slightly differently. My 
QM query would look something like this:

    WHERE     DTDATE >= DATE(&q&PROMPTDATE&q)

and I call it like:

 ==> STRQMQRY QMQRY(ROUTINES/SYSDOWNQM1)
     SETVAR((PROMPTDATE '2003-05-01') ('q' &APOST))

This lets me put <&q> in as many places as needed within the query statement 
and only handle it once in the CL. No need to count doubled quoted quotes and I 
can make adjustments in the QM query without recompiling the CL It's worked 
very well so far.

Tom Liotta

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