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  3. August 2003

Re: Passing in a date into STRQMQRY

Rob,

I think QMQRY does not allow that parameter passed as a literal; it has 
something to do with global host variables. Hence the "prompt"-screen when 
doing it interactively. Looks like retrieving message data.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 25-8-03 at 10:42 rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Trying to run STRQMQRY from the command line and not a CL.The QMQRY looks like:
>...
>  WHERE     DTDATE >= DATE(&PROMPTDATE)
>...
>where DTDATE is a date field.
>
>If I do a STRQMQRY QMQRY(ROUTINES/SYSDOWNQM1) and just type in '2003-05-01' 
>when prompted it works.
>However if I try STRQMQRY QMQRY(ROUTINES/SYSDOWNQM1) SETVAR((PROMPTDATE 
>'2003-05-01'))
>it pulls in all dates.

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