RE: Passing in a date into STRQMQRY

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

My dim and almost forgotton past tells me that you need to pass promptdate
as a character string with embedded apostrophes wrapping the data.  The
value passed must look like "'2003-08-25'",  which means you have to figure
out all the '' stuff to build it.  

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:43 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Passing in a date into STRQMQRY


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.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 
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