RE: A good one.

&Month is defined with length of four.  Therefore, your concatenation of
"1", first two characters of &Year, &Month, and "01", results in
"1YYMMMM01".  The "01" is truncated to fit in &FrDate. 

Hope that helps. 

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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dcl var(&year) type(*char) len(4)
Dcl var(&month) type(*char) len(4)
dcl var(&frdate) type(*char) len(7)
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chgvar var(&frdate) +
 value('1' *cat %sst(&year 3 2) *cat &month *cat '01')
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  700 - OPNQRYF FILE((IMHIST) (PPGITEMS)) FORMAT(IMHIST) QRYSLT('(tcode =
 "RP") *and (trndt *eq %range(10311 10311))') KEYFLD((ITNBR) (TRNDT))
 JFLD((1/ITNBR 2/ITNBR)) JDFTVAL(*NO) MAPFLD((ITNBR '1/itnbr') (PRQOH
 '2/disc'))

question: Where are my days? 2003 is passed in as the year, 11 is passed in
as the month.
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