Date Prompting Problem ....

[Art Bahrs]

Hi All :)
   Hopefully, someone can help me on this Holiday Eve (at least for us
'Yanks' hehe)

   I am attempting to get a start and end date via the PROMPT method on a
local memory variable in a Quiz run (which will then set a CI variable) and
I am getting an error stating that the string I am imputting is too long...
yet the $STDLIST shows that I am only getting 8 characters.... which is what
I have defined the the field to be in Quiz....I have included the errant
section of Quiz Code, the related JCL and the related part of the $STDLIST.

I am using the format of CCYYMMDD for my dates...

We are running Quiz 8.19.C3, JMS and MPE/iX 5.5 (patched) on a 979-200....

Any help will be very much appreciated.... I.E. what did I do wrong this
time????

Art "hmmm.... it should work? but it doesn't... is it Monday?  hehe" Bahrs


Quiz Source Code:
;* define local memory variables
DEFINE P-BEGIN-DATE CHAR*08 = PARM PROMPT "ENTER BEGIN DATE YYYYMMDD:  "
DEFINE BEGIN-DATE   CHAR*08 = TRUNCATE(P-BEGIN-DATE) &
 IF (SETSYSTEMVAL("BEG_DTE", TRUNCATE(P-BEGIN-DATE))) &
 ELSE " "


JCL in Job Stream File:

!QUIZ
Q U I Z   (PowerHouse  8.19.C3)
Copyright 1998 COGNOS INCORPORATED
DenKor Dental Management Corp.

EXE PHYRXDT1.OBJR.COGACCT
.\CURREOM,13C\01
.\CURREOM,53\


JCL in $STDLIST:
>  EXE PHYRXDT1.OBJR.COGACCT
ENTER BEGIN DATE YYYYMMDD:   20000601
This string is too long. Please re-enter.
The maximum number of reprompts (0) used .
An error occurred while prompting for DEFINE with PARM.



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