RE: Retrieve JOB (not SYSTEM) date in SQL -- MIDRANGE-L

Problem I see

--you say the function returns a date, but your CL doesn't return anything, in fact CL can't return
return values. Try RPGLE instead.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
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Subject: RE: Retrieve JOB (not SYSTEM) date in SQL

I think the UDF is a great idea. I have created one (my first) but it
doesn't work quite right.

CREATE FUNCTION WDSSYS.GETJOBDATE ( )
RETURNS DATE
LANGUAGE CL
SPECIFIC WDSSYS.GETJOBDATE
NOT DETERMINISTIC
NO SQL
CALLED ON NULL INPUT
DISALLOW PARALLEL
EXTERNAL NAME 'MKIRKPAT/GETJOBDATE'
PARAMETER STYLE SQL ;

My CL pgm:

pgm parm(&jobdateymd)

DCL VAR(&JOBDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
DCL VAR(&JOBDATEYMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)

RTVJOBA DATE(&JOBDATE)
CVTDAT DATE(&JOBDATE) TOVAR(&JOBDATEYMD) TOFMT(*YYMD)
TOSEP(*NONE)

endpgm

What am I missing? Thanks.

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/03/2008 02:56:02 PM:

I am not aware of an SQL special register or a built-in function that

would

give you a job date. Writing a UDF that does this would be very simple
though (CL or RPG), and you could reuse it elsewhere.

HTH, Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Retrieve JOB (not SYSTEM) date in SQL

I want to populate a date column in a table with the JOB DATE (not

SYSTEM

DATE). This is because we run for prior days on the current day. I

could

do this by using a variable in RPG on my INSERT stmt but would like to
avoid RPG and possibly do it using RUNSQLSTM. CURRENT DATE gives me the

system date. How could I get the JOB date to use in my INSERT stmt.
Thanks.

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