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I have always passed dates as alpha and converted them in the program to the correct format and numeric. Then you can call your program with the date in single quotes as a parm. Jim -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:20 AM To: RPG Group Subject: Passing Parms I still struggle with the issue of passing date parms to a program.... Is there a specific format that they must be in? the user is going to enter it as a type *USA, but it seems like at least from the command line I can never get them to pass correctly. Suggestions or hints? If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime. -- This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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