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Re: Passing in a date into STRQMQRY

At 10:42 8/25/2003, Rob Berendt 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.

I remember QMQRY being very picky about quoting alpha data (which I think a date would be in this case). Try inserting literal quotes in the parameter value:
STRQMQRY QMQRY(ROUTINES/SYSDOWNQM1) SETVAR((PROMPTDATE '''2003-05-01'''))

Pete Hall
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