As I recall MANMAN is FORTRAN 77/iX, and most ASK 
clients have the source code, and MADMAN makes use 
of a limited number of date routines.  With all that said, 
here's what I did in a similar situation, not MANMAN but 
the same logic applies.

An old G/L accounting app, written in Fortran 66/V on 
the HP3000. It made use of only one routine to read in 
dates from the $STDIN. The date read in is just ASCII 
characters, so I added some special dates, outside of 
the standard date formats. I modified the date routine to 
accept ASCII characters like :TODAY[+/-nnn], 
NEXTSAT, LASTWED, MOEND, MOBEG, YREND, 
and so on. Then use contributed software like SLEEPER  
or MASTEROP for job scheduling.  Actually, I think MASTEROP
has some job parm capability built into it and it's free.

For example:

To enter yesterdays date in a job stream/terminal read
 you would type

TODAY-1

Or 90 days ago

TODAY-90



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>>> Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]> 12/06 12:58 PM >>>
At 9:40 AM -0500 12/6/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone knows of a Good Job Scheduler for an MPE System
>that is running the MANMAN Software.  I have dates that I have to change
>every single day, so the Job Scheduler would have to be able to change the
>dates and weekdays.  I am currently using "switches" and a "modall" job that
>changes dates and weekdays.  If a date is missed or a "switch" is missed, I
>have a big mess on my hands because the wrong jobs run.  Any help would be
>much appreciated.