Is there a way to take a date like:

May 25, 2018

and convert it to YYMD or MDYY in WF8105 dialogue manager? I feel like there should be an easy way to do this but for the life of me i can't seem to get the function right.

Thanks for the help!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tim P.,

You'll have to decompose all the components using character functions first, and then assemble them into the YYMD. This would involve DECODE of the Month into the 2 digit month number. I'd start with SUBSTR and go from there.

How bad do you need this? It's a lot of code.

yea decomposing the date and the concantenating it back together was about the only way i got close to what i needed.

It's not critical right now as i'm just fiddling around in the new 8203 portal page designer. If your content is driven by a date parameter, the control is predicated on that parameter but the default format in the control is as above and i don't see a way to change it.

FOCUS has supported something called "natural dates" (constants) from forever, but to my knowledge this is not exposed in a user function. The code below will work on most platforms:

-DEFAULTS &INDATE = 'Jan 1, 2018' ;
FI MYFEX DISK myfex.fex (LRECL 80
DEFINE FILE CAR
MYDT/YYMD WITH COUNTRY = '&INDATE' ;
MYA/A8YYMD = MYDT ;
ACMD/A80 = '-SET ' | '&&' | 'WOW=' | '''' | MYA | '''' | ';' ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT ACMD
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE SAVE AS MYFEX
END
-RUN
EX MYFEX
-RUN
-TYPE DATE IS &&WOW
-EXIT

Once you have the global variable &&WOW, you can use any of the date functions from dialog mgr to get any date you want.

Yea it looks like using the car file (or any other small temp table) may be the only way. I was kind of hoping for a solution that didn't involve bringing in a table but oh well.
Thanks for the help!

This could be a way to go:

 

-DEFAULT &Date1 = 'May 25, 2018';

 DEFINE FUNCTION TODATE(null/I1)
 DTEMDYY/MDYY = '&Date1';
 TODATE/A8MDYY = DTEMDYY;
 END
-RUN

-SET &Date2 = TODATE(.);
-TYPE &Date1 --> &Date2