Sv: Date Prompting Problem ....

[Ole Hansen, ScanConsult]

Hi Art,

If your samples are truly cut-and-paste, then your date input is 
" 20000601" (note leading blank) rather than "20000601" as far as I can see.

/Ole Hansen

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Fra: Art Bahrs <abahrs@denkor.com>
Til: POWERH-L@sphere.swau.edu <POWERH-L@sphere.swau.edu>
Dato: 3. juli 2000 18:10
Emne: Date Prompting Problem ....


>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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