M Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We are currently in the process of adding new CENTURY variable for
> MPE/iX.
>
> Proposed HPCENTURY CI variable would return the century component
> (first two digit of the current year) corresponding to the HPYEAR
> CI variable. For example,
>
>   In 1997,   HPYEAR = 97 and HPCENTURY = 19
>      2000,   HPYEAR = 00 and HPCENTURY = 20
>      2001,   HPYEAR = 01 and HPCENTURY = 20 and so on.
>
> Hence, we would be having HPCENTURY and HPYEAR variables to get the Year.
>
> Question : Do you need (how important it is) to  have a new CI variable for
>            four-digit year, having 1997 for Year 1997, 2000 for Year 2000,
>            and so on?. If you need, what would be the better name for the
>            variable? (one suggestion is : HPYEAR4).


Hi,


I don't see any reason to create something like HPYEAR4. What I think
that would be a good thing to have is a variable for the complete date
in the format YYYYMMDD (e.g. 19961120).

Something else that I was looking for recently also might be interesting
to have, and that is a variable for the calendar week. I have put this
in this newsgroup a few weeks ago and I received different answers on
how to calculate this number. Having it at system level would be nice.
Don't you think so ?


Best regards,
Marnix Van Achter
Supply Chain Software
Belgium