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July 06, 2009, 11:03 AM
SG
[CLOSED] Previous Business Day
Hello,

I am using the below line to get previous business day.
-SET &PRIBUSDAY =
- DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'PWD')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');
I am getting 20090703. I am assuming most of the companies were closed on Friday. Is there a work around or do I need to hard code depending on my companies holidays?

Thanks,
SG.

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Webfocus 7.6.8
PDF,HTML & EXCEL
July 06, 2009, 11:32 AM
Francis Mariani
DATECVT appears to behave differently when used in Dialogue Manager and WebFOCUS.

Example:
-SET &PRIBUSDAY =
- DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'PWD')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');

-TYPE &PRIBUSDAY

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE1/YYMD =
IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' THEN '20090702' ELSE
IF COUNTRY EQ 'FRANCE'  THEN '20090703' ELSE
IF COUNTRY EQ 'JAPAN'   THEN '20090704' ELSE '20090705';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DATE1
COMPUTE PRIBUSDAY/YYMD = DATEMOV(DATE1,'PWD');
HEADING
"PRIBUSDAY from dialog manager: &PRIBUSDAY"
BY COUNTRY
END
-RUN

Result:
PRIBUSDAY from dialog manager: 20090703 
 
COUNTRY   DATE1      PRIBUSDAY 
--------- ---------- ----------
ENGLAND   2009/07/02 2009/07/01 
FRANCE    2009/07/03 2009/07/02 
ITALY     2009/07/05 2009/07/02 
JAPAN     2009/07/04 2009/07/02 
W GERMANY 2009/07/05 2009/07/02 


Strangely, even without use of a holiday file, the previous business day is calculated to July 2nd, so the holiday seems to be built-in to WebFOCUS.

As well, use of the holiday file with the command SET HDAY appears not to work for Dialogue Manager.


Francis


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July 06, 2009, 11:47 AM
SG
I see no difference in both Dialogue Manager and Webfocus.
you are getting different results since you are assigning '20090705' to DATE1. if you assign
DATE1/YYMD = &YYMD you will get the same results.

Thanks,
SG.


Webfocus 7.6.8
PDF,HTML & EXCEL
July 06, 2009, 11:58 AM
Francis Mariani
HDAY2009.err file:
20090703
20090704
 

Code:
SET HDAY = 2009
-RUN

-SET &PRIBUSDAY =
- DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'PWD')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');

-TYPE &PRIBUSDAY

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE1/YYMD =
IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' THEN '20090702' ELSE
IF COUNTRY EQ 'FRANCE'  THEN '20090703' ELSE
IF COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY'   THEN '20090704' ELSE
IF COUNTRY EQ 'JAPAN'   THEN '20090705' ELSE '&YYMD';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DATE1
COMPUTE PRIBUSDAY/YYMD = DATEMOV(DATE1,'PWD');
HEADING
"PRIBUSDAY from dialog manager: &PRIBUSDAY"
BY COUNTRY
END
-RUN

Result:
PRIBUSDAY from dialog manager: 20090703 
 
COUNTRY   DATE1      PRIBUSDAY 
--------- ---------- ----------
ENGLAND   2009/07/02 2009/07/01 
FRANCE    2009/07/03 2009/07/02 
ITALY     2009/07/04 2009/07/02 
JAPAN     2009/07/05 2009/07/02 
W GERMANY 2009/07/06 2009/07/03 

You're right. Even though I have 20090703 as a holiday in the HDAY file, it still is evaluated as a previous business day, despite the rule "A business day calculation is affected by the BUSDAYS and HDAY parameter settings".


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server