Re: *DATE type in command question

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:07 09/21/1998 , Loyd Goodbar wrote:
>I have a command with a parameter type *DATE. I want to give it a default
>value of *CURRENT or *TODAY or whatever. I can't because the compiler says
>default values or special values (tried both) were not valid. Am I stuck? On
>the built-in job scheduler, special values are allowed for dates. Or did IBM
>do something weird?

The command actually passes a "*DATE" as a 7 position packed value. The command 
will allow you to pass any value which can legitimately be passed as a 7 digit 
number (like -1 or -2) You need to map *CURRENT or *TODAY to a value such as 
this which is a real number, but which your CPP can interpret as requiring 
special processing, by using the SPCVAL keyword for the parameter.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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