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JBK
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I have written a focexec which uses Dialog Mananger to calculate the begining and ending dates for various date ranges. Below is an example of how it calculates the begining and ending dates for the current month.

-SET &TODAY = EDIT(&DATEYYMD, '9999$99$99');

-SET &BEGIN_DATE = DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&TODAY,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'BOM')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');
-SET &END_DATE   = DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&TODAY,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'EOM')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');

-TYPE &TODAY
-TYPE BEGIN_DATE = &BEGIN_DATE
-TYPE END_DATE = &END_DATE


How can I get the HDTTM function to convert the &BEGIN_DATE and &END_DATE values to DATE-TIME values?

Thank you.

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GamP
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If you check the manual for the HDTTM function, you'll notice, that the available languages for this function are reporting and maintain. So in DM it won't work. If you want to use DM to add a time portion, then just simply add ' 12:00 AM' to the &variable.


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JBK
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GamP,

Other functions that have available languages listed as 'reporting, Maintain' work in DM. why would this be an exception?

I had tried, among other things, concatenating the time component prior to posting this question, and it did not work in the WHERE statements where these variables are needed.

So, do you or anybody else have any ideas?

Thank you.


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dbeagan
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Like this:
-SET &TODAY = EDIT(&DATEYYMD, '9999$99$99');
-SET &BEGIN_DATE = DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&TODAY,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'BOM')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');
-SET &END_DATE   = DATECVT((DATEMOV((DATECVT(&TODAY,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),'EOM')),'YYMD','I8YYMD');
-SET &BEGIN_DATE = &BEGIN_DATE | ' 00:00:00';
-SET &END_DATE   = &END_DATE | ' 23:59:59';

Don't need the extra -SETs statements, but the lines of code were getting long.


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JBK
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Thanks, dbeagan. I had done just that -- and it didn't work. Your post made realize the problem wasn't with the concatenation, it was that I hadn't added .EVAL to the variables in the WHERE statement.

Thank you!


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