RE: AS/400 query with date - 6 months -- MIDRANGE-L

I'd go with SEQUEL.

Paul Nelson
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:29 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: AS/400 query with date - 6 months

Below is my query select.

ODUDATCYMD LT '1160130'

DSPOBJD to an output file results with ODUDAT Last used date
(MMDDYY)
To compare an object's last use date, the ODUDAT needs to be reformatted
with the century added.
ODUDATCYMD is a result field from century year month day.

ODUDATCYMD ODUCEN || ODUDATY || ODUDATM || ODUDATD Last Used
Date (CYYMMDD)

I would like to replace the hardcoded literal '1160130' with a variable.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Darren Strong
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 11:06 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: AS/400 query with date - 6 months

I'm assuming you're wanting to do some date arithmetic on today's date? If
so, I learned the following from the F1 screen in the Define a column
section of WRKQRY.

char(current(date)- 6 months,iso)

Looks like it works, except that the value isn't numeric, and I couldn't
find a way to make it so.

From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/30/2016 10:19 AM
Subject: AS/400 query with date - 6 months
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have an AS/400 query with a hardcoded date.
The date is today's date - 6 months.
Example 1160130.

I'd like to make this date a variable.

Can this be done within the query?
Or
Must it be done outside the query and pass the date as a variable to the
query?
Then, instead of calling RUNQRY, I would need to STRQMQRY.

Any thoughts from the group?

Thank You
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