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Re: Date entry revisited
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Robert Mills <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert Mills <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:52:29 -0000
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Kim,

You have to get the CI to put the value contained in KDATE so ![kdate] should do the job.

regards,

Robert W.Mills
Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
(020) 8309 3604


HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
> I can do the following in a job:
> 
> If hpday = 4
>  setvar kdate !hpyyyymmdd - 2
> Endif
> 
> And kdate has my needed date for my cobol program.  20041115.
> 
> Now the question is how to get it into the program to use it for a
> data base search.
> 
> If I put '!kdate' or '!!kdate' under the run command and use ACCEPT
> in the program, it reads the phrase '!kdate', not the contents of it.
> 
> How do I make it read the value of 'kdate' ?
> 
> Mr. Kim Borgman
> NWS Inc.
> Indianapolis, IN
> 
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