"Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I need some great hacks to generate a YYMMDD string as part of a backup
>filename, and to get rid of old backups. This is the best I could come
>up with for the former. I would welcome better ideas, or suggestions on
>improving what I am doing or how I am doing it. I do like that it is
>short and uncluttered by anything extraneous. I also think that it is
>not intuitively obvious to the most casual user, or anyone else.

Sorry about getting into this so late.

Now if you have MPEX, you can do something like this:

SETVAR SYSL STRWRITE(TODAY:'YYMMDD')
FILE SYSLIST=BK!SYSL.BACKUPLG;DEV=DISC;DISC=1000000

FYI
Roger Smith,  Systems Programmer Analyst
Tulare County Office of Education
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