HPDATE is 'read only' so you cannot set it.

The only way I was able to get it to return 0 was to use a command file
with a parm with the same name so that the parm takes precedence when
dereferenced.

<cmd file>
PARM HPDATE=0
echo mydate=!HPDATE

<output>
mydate=0

Some possible causes:

1. You have the above mentioned situation.

2. Maybe you are in MPEX and have a similar situation.

3. *Very improbable* but I have seen the CALENDAR intrinsic return 0 or
garbage intermittently because the processor card was going (had gone)
bad. Are you seeing any other date related problems?


Dinu Iulian wrote:
>
> I am a System Engineer to a factory which have 2 severs HP 3000 series: one
> S937 with MPE/iX 5.5 named HUSKY and one S932 with MPE/iX 4.0 named PANDA.
> I have two problems:
> 1. To S932 (PANDA): How can I set variabiles !hpdate, !hpmonth.., because
> the sistem can't delete spoolfiles after 3 days (the program compares the
> date, when spoolfiles was created, with variabiles !hpdate, !hpmonth)?
> Now,for example, the command ":echo !hpdate" return "0" to display.
> 2. To S937 (HUSKY): I want set the prompter "MPE/iX:" to "HUSKY/MPE/iX:"
> (before "hello" command). In whom configuration file I can set the prompter
> how I want it to be (HUSKY/MPE/iX:)?
> To S932 (PANDA)the prompter is good: "PANDA/MPE/iX:".
>
> Thank you!
>
> Name: Dinu Iulian
> Company: SC Tractorul UTB SA
> Country: Romania
> Phone: 4068312215
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