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It works well with + 20 days. The V5R4 manual says that the following are
new for this release (among many other new things);

ADD_MONTHS, LAST_DAY, NEXT_DAY, and VARCHAR_FORMAT scalar functions

Jim
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Also, what is the minimum release for the Last_Day function?

Birgitta Hauser wrote:
You may try the following with SQL.

Exec SQL Set :My20st = Last_Day(Current_Date) + 20 Days;

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

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Auftrag von James Perkins
Gesendet: Monday, 05. October 2009 18:48
An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Betreff: Re: Calculate the 20th of next month

I actually just went through this last week.

I ended up using a character date and the substring BIF. This is what
concerned me from the documentation.
"Adding or subtracting a number of months to the 29th, 30th, or 31st day
of
a month may not be reversible. For example, 2000-03-31 + %MONTHS(1) -
%MONTHS(1) is 2000-03-30. "

While it might be the 20th now, you never know when that could change and
someone would just replace the number 20 with what they desire.

I created a simple subprocedure that excepted a date, converted it to a
character date, substring the fields you want to change and create a new
date.

charDate = %char(date : *iso);
%subst(charDate : 7 : 2) = '20';
newDate = %date(charDate) - %months(1);
return newDate;

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On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 09:22, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Another simple task...

I need to calculate the 20 of the next month from today, whatever today

is.

duedate = (%date() + %month(1)) - (%subdt(%date()): *d) + (%days:
20)

Seems like a choice but ... what are some of the other ways that work
easily?


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