Re: %date not evaluating in DOW as "I" would expect

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been wondering if he could just leave the *iso parm off the 
%date(bif) (unless he has set a DATFMT keyword) and see if that works as 
he expects?

Scott Klement wrote:
> Okay.  I changed mine from packed to zoned and ran it again, it still 
> didn't enter the loop.
>
> There's more to this problem than meets the eye.
>
> Make sure you check that your source matches your object.  I've 
> frequently had problems like this because someone changed the source 
> code (and it's not always obvious) so that the source code no longer 
> matched the object.  When debugging, it showed strange things happening 
> because it showed the new source with the actual execution happening in 
> the old object.
>
> Bryce Martin wrote:
>   
> > I am using WDSC 7 with SEP to debug.  I have a breakpoint on the statement 
> > and follow it down to the bottome where I increase Running_Date.  My 
> > monitor show Running_Date being incremented and To_Date is just as it 
> > always is... its a constant parameter that is passed into this procedure. 
> > My field is 8,0 zoned, not packed.  I did see that discrepency in your 
> > code Scott.  Not that it should matter I suspect.
> >