Re: CL program

Using a couple of CEE APIs you can get your filename directly. This is an ILE 
program.

pgm
DCL &DATE *CHAR 6
DCL &LILDATE *CHAR 4
DCL &FC *CHAR 12
dcl &monthyear *char 7
/* get system date */
rtvsysval qdate &date
/* change to first of month */
CHGVAR &DATE (%SST(&DATE 1 2) *CAT '01' *CAT %SST(&DATE 5 2))
/* get "lillian" date number */
CALLprc CEEDAYS (&DATE 'MMDDYY' &lildate &fc)
/* subtract 1 day to get last day of previous month */
CHGVAR (%BIN(&LILDATE)) ((%BIN(&LILDATE) - 1))
/* get 3-char month name + 4-digit year */
CALLprc CEEDATE (&lildate  'MMMYYYY'  &monthyear  &fc)
endpgm
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> In CL you know today's year and today's month. The day is always "1". 
> 
> Subtract 1 day from that date and you will have the last day of last month. 
> 
> You can do a CVTDAT command and get a julian date in the form of yyddd. 
> Subtract 1 and then do a cvtdat back to the date format you want. 
> 
> I leave it as a trivial problem to resolve a ddd of 000, which will 
> occur with this solution every January. 
> 
> John Candidi wrote: 
> > Let me describe what I'm trying to do. I'm sure it's pretty simple for 
> > anyone who knows CL. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I need to create a library with the month-end name (i.e. after January 
> > month-end, I'd need a JAN2006 library) that will contain 10 files which I 
> > copy into it. I will need to do this every month as part of our month-end 
> > process. I assume it will have to subtract several days from today's date 
> > and pull the month and year from that date in case month-end is not run on 
> > the last day of the month Is there a simple CL program to do this. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > John A Candidi 
> > 
> > Rutgers Insurance Companies 
> > 
> > IT Director - AS/400 Manager 
> > 
> > 856-779-2274 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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