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Virtuoso
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Is there a function on WF that will take a Smart Date formated field that is a format of "Mtr" and put the fullword of the month into an A9 alpha field?

Don't ask me why I wnat to do this because it would take too long to explain what I am doing. I am neck deep into a complicated but really cool report program.

Big Grin

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Mickey

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Wishful thinking!

I've found that we have to use DEFINE or COMPUTE. Here, I've typed it out for you, so you don't have to Big Grin

MTR/A9 = DECODE MX (
01 January  , 02 February, 03 March   , 04 April
05 May      , 06 June    , 07 July    , 08 August
09 September, 10 October , 11 November, 12 December ELSE '');


Francis


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Thanks Francis for the thoughtfulness. However, I already coded the whole thing before I posted my question. I was just wondering if there was a simplier way. Apparently we need 1002 ways to work with dates in WF.


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Mickey

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Spoke too soon!

TABLE FILE GGORDER
SUM
ORDER_DATE NOPRINT
COMPUTE ORDER_DATEA/A8YYMD = ORDER_DATE;
COMPUTE ORDER_MTR/A17 = CHGDAT('YYMD','MX',ORDER_DATEA,'A17') ;
BY ORDER_DATE NOPRINT
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 10
END


Francis


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Or

TABLE FILE GGORDER
SUM
ORDER_DATE NOPRINT
COMPUTE ORDER_DATEA/A8YYMD = ORDER_DATE;
COMPUTE ORDER_MTR/A9 = LCWORD(9, CHGDAT('YYMD','MX',ORDER_DATEA,'A9'), 'A9');
BY ORDER_DATE NOPRINT
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 10
END


Francis


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Very Good Winky


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indeed!




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Busy are you Francis? lol

T



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Virtuoso
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Thanks Francis. I'll give that a try. It looks good. I will also look it up in the manual. Yikes! Eeker


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Mickey

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Here's just one more way.


TABLE FILE GGORDER
SUM
ORDER_DATE NOPRINT
COMPUTE ORDER_LOWER/MONtr = ORDER_DATE;
COMPUTE ORDER_UPPER/MONTR = ORDER_DATE;
BY ORDER_DATE NOPRINT
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 10
END


Glenda

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slick!
that's got uses for alot of stuff i am currently doing the old fashioned way...
thanks for reading the manual for us, Glenda. Wink




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quote:
Originally posted by Francis Mariani:
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COMPUTE ORDER_MTR/A9 = LCWORD(9, CHGDAT('YYMD','MX',ORDER_DATEA,'A9'), 'A9');
[/code]


I always give CHGDAT a full 'A17' output to work with; when you give it A9, no telling what the additional A6 it returns may trounce.


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Virtuoso
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My original requirement was for the Month Name to be in an ALPHA format field. Glenda's technique works great but does not put the month name into and alpha field.


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Mickey

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MONTR
Where's this curious format in the manual?

Tony, I have reports that take a half hour to run due to DBA's not having indexes on the DB2 tables, hence I have a lot of time...


Francis


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COMPUTE CUR_MO/A17 = CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MDYYX', '&YYMD', 'A17');
COMPUTE DISP_MONTH/A9 = GETTOK(CUR_MO, 17, 1, ' ', 9, DISP_MONTH);


Tom Flynn
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I just wanted to let everyone know I finally got a chance to change my code to use the CHGDAT function and it works great.


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Mickey

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Whoa !!!

This is an old thread, but when did Mtr get changed to MONtr ?????

I've been struggling with this and thought it was a quirk of Windows 8 ....

Like Francis I have been using a DECODE as a workaround ...

MONtr actually works !


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