Re: Looking for program that will adjust a given date

The program you are after is SYS903B.  You will have to call this program
twice: once to convert a Date into Days, then add the number of days you
want to increment it by, then call SYS903B to convert the Days into a new
Date.  The 'Days' referred to here is the number of days since an arbitrary
date (I believe it's 1/1/1901).

To see what the parameters are, have a look at (just about) any AS/SET
program.  In there is a subroutine called A0DATE which calls SYS903B.  The
first time you call it you will need a From date format of '*CYMD' and a To
date format of '*DAYS'.  The second time around you will reverse these
formats.  If you are on a V405 release, the equivalent program might be
SYS903 (unless they still use those RPG- '$POPE' and '$ROME' routines).

SYS903B works by calling the system-API QWCCVTDT, so it's not terribly
efficient (2 call operations per date-conversion).  Hence you may want to
write your own program-internal routine to do conversions if performance is
an issue.

- Bernard

-----Original Message-----
From: Hancock, Teri <THANCOCK@accuridecorp.com>
To: 'BPCS-L@midrange.com' <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, June 12, 1999 9:04 AM
Subject: Looking for program that will adjust a given date


>
>I know that there has to be a BPCS program out there that will allow you to
>pass in a date, number of days to adjust, and return back the revised or
>adjusted date. Would anyone know the program name?
>
>For example: I want to send in 1999/02/25 and add 14 days to the date.  The
>returned result should be 1999/02/10.
>
>I know that I can write something using the CVTDAT adding the number of
days
>and then reconverting to the YYYYMMDD format within the same CLP.  I was
>just hoping to use a BPCS program. ( I know, I must be crazy.)
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Teri

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