Re: [EXTERNAL] Getting last Friday's date

Doug Mack (or other IBMer now, since his retirement) has given a presentation at COMMON he calls "speed dating" - he has been the one presenting about Web Query, too, so no surprise, I guess, that he suggests this.

Cheers
Vern


On Tue, 8 Aug, 2023 at 8:17 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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Thanks for that! Aside from being really fast, it also will give you as
many dates that fit as you want. Cool.

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On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 7:17 AM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

I use a table from IBM called DATE_CONV for a lot of my date converting
(JOIN is faster than converting). I think this was included with web query
in QWQCENT library.

select dc_date from date_conv
where dc_date <= current_date and dc_day_name='Friday'
order by dc_date desc
fetch first row only;

Result is 2023-08-04

Of course, you can return your date in virtually any date format.

HTH

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Getting last Friday's date

I need to retrieve the date from last Friday. If it is Friday, I want the
current date. Anyone have a routine that does that before I start
developing one? Seem like a good SQL problem but the program using it
would be in CLLE.

Thoughts?
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