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Bill, >"When OPTIONS(*OMIT) is specified, then the value >*OMIT is allowed for that >parameter. *OMIT is only allowed for CONST >parameters and parameters which >are passed by reference." > >To me, this says that Value is not allowed. OPTIONS(*OMIT) and OPTIONS(*NOPASS) are not the same thing... *NOPASS will allow you to use value and you don't have to pass anything in it's place unlike *OMIT which requires you to pass *OMIT as a place holder. >> P.S. Have you checked out the Date service >program >> in my free xRPG library? >> >> http://www.rpgnext.com/docs/rnbdates.php >> >> It may have what you are looking for already... >if >> not let me know and I may be able to add it. > >No, I hadn't. The program's already written, >thanks for the offer - and - >yes, what this program does you don't have. It's >a date offset by a number >of days calculator with optional date format >translation. eg: calculate 30 >days ago and translate from *MDY to *CYMD0. > >Bill Actually, I think you could accomplish this with my library like so: yourDate = createDate( MDYdateString : '*MDY' ); adjustedDate = yourDate - %days( 30 ); adjustedDateString = %char( getDateCYMD( adjustedDate ) ); *yourDate and adjustedDate are defined as date fields, adjustedDateString is 10a. :-) Joel http://www.rpgnext.com >To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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