I am witness to an interesting problem that I can't figure out. The boss upstairs wanted the day of the week in addition to the date. I created a define field in the master file to take the DOWK(DATE,'A3'), and I inserted the field as a "BY" in the Report Painter. When I ran the report, the correct output from November 1 - Nov 15 is displayed (Sun, Mon, Tue, etc.), but from every date from then on, the field is empty.
It makes no sense, so I was wondering if anyone had encountered this error, and more importantly, if anyone knows what the problem might be.

Thanks

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

What format is the DATE field ?

DOWK requires a date in I6YMD or I8YYMD format.

All OK in 7.7.01 using the following code. Test it on your 7.7.02 set-up and if you have any problems then I would recommend giving IB support a call.

EX -LINES 3 EDAPUT MASTER,DATERNG,CF,MEM,FILENAME=DATERNG, SUFFIX=FOC,$
SEGNAME=SEG1
FIELD=DATE_KEY, ,DMYY ,DMYY , $
-RUN
-* Now create it
CREATE FILE DATERNG
-* and add all possible dates within a month
MODIFY FILE DATERNG
FREEFORM DATE_KEY.A8.
LOG FORMAT MSG OFF
LOG TRANS MSG OFF
LOG INVALID MSG OFF
DATA
-* This repeat loop will ensure at least a whole month is input,
-* Any invalid dates will be rejected.
-DEFAULT &Year  = 2010
-SET &Year  = EDIT(&YYMD,'9999$');
-SET &Mnth = 11;
-SET &Day   = 1;
-REPEAT :Loop1 31 TIMES;
-SET &Date = IF &Day LT 10 THEN '0' || &Day ELSE &Day;
&Date&Mnth&Year
-SET &Day = &Day + 1;
-:Loop1
END
-RUN
-*
DEFINE FILE DATERNG
  KEY_YYMD/I8YYMD = DATE_KEY;
  DOW/A3          = DOWK(KEY_YYMD,'A3');
END
-*
TABLE FILE DATERNG
PRINT DOW
   BY DATE_KEY
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  GRID=OFF, SIZE=10, $
ENDSTYLE
END

T

Thanks Waz and Tony for the input.

jjeanjaquet, suggestion from our technicals:

If the date field is a smart date field then you can take advantage of the date formatting of W for day of the week.
Here is an example:

DEFINE FILE EMPDATA
HIREDATEDOW/Wt=HIREDATE;
END
TABLE FILE EMPDATA
SUM CNT.PIN
BY HIREDATEDOW
END

Cheers,

Kerry

Thanks everbody. I did what Kerry suggested and used the date format "Wt" instead of creating an expression using DOWK() and that seems to have done the trick.

Much appreciated,

Joe

At least we now know it was a Smart Date field.

Many options available.