CHOOSE current-date

[Johan Koelewijn]

Hello Bob,

You can put the value of sysdate in a systemvalue and use that systemvalue
for your choose. That's the way we do it.

Johan Koelewijn
Van Dijk Delft BV

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Bob Feighner <bfeighnr@mailclerk.ecok.edu>
Aan: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
Datum: dinsdag 7 september 1999 23:47
Onderwerp: CHOOSE current-date


>I can't believe that I haven't tried this before, but it must be the case.
>
>I want to use a QUIZ statement
>'CHOOSE A-DATE SYSDATE'
>where A-DATE is a key to the IMAGE detail data set residing on our HP3000
and
>receive this error message.
>
>*E* Expected:  @  .  GENERIC  NOGENERIC  PARM  SYSTEMVALUE  ,  (  <number>
>      <eol>
>
>If I change it to
>'CHOOSE A-DATE 19990907', all is well.
>
>If I change it to
>'SELECT IF A-DATE = SYSDATE', all is well (except that it does a serial
read on
>the file.
>
>I want to run this daily without having to 'seed' the command file with the
date
>every time.
>
>I'm guessing that this is trivial for someone.
>
>Help, please and Thanks In Advance.
>
>Bob
>
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