Re: Last Day of Last Month

[Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could set the job in the job schedule to run on the last day of the
month and just pick up the date in the cl.

Brad McDaniel wrote:

>
>
> I am writing some CL's to automate some monthly jobs that are usually
> submitted through user menus.  This particular CL submits a job with
> the prior month and year as the parms (let's say &YEAR (4) and &MONTH
> (2)).  Then, the CL does a STRQMQRY with the year, month, and day of
> the last day of that month.  Does anyone have a sample of the easiest
> way to figure out the last day of a particular month (i.e.  if run
> today, the year and month would be 1999 09, and the CL would need to
> pass 19990930 to the query.)?
>
> I know the method for passing parms with STRQMQRY, I am just wondering
> if anyone has some code laying around that gives you the last day of
> the month (accounting for leap years also).
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad McDaniel
> Information Services
> Annuity Board, SBC
> http://www.absbc.org
> 214-720-6546

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