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Leye
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Please I am trying to pull records that are older than a set date.

After researching, I discovered that I could use the AYM or DATEADD function in InfoAssist.

But when I use this, I get the message "FOC36355. INVALID TYPE OF ARGUMENT..."

Since I was using the Interactive InfoAssist tool, my code was:

AYM(SYSDATE_DATE, 6, FROM_DATE)

Please how do I rectify this?

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njsden
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AYM only works for a Year/Month value (such as 201204), not a full date.

You may need to use AYMD instead, or create a virtual /YYM field first and do AYM on it but I have not used InfoAssist so am not aware of what it does/doesn't allow.


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Todd_Wallace
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DATEADD is way easier to use in my opinion.
2 Computes
 COMPUTE TDAY/MDYY = '&MDYY';
COMPUTE FROM_DATE/MDYY = DATEADD(TDAY, 'M', -6);

First on is a MDYY called TDAY and has today's date in it and for the second set a compute up as MDYY as FROM_DATE.
That would get you a date 6 months ago from today(the day the report is run) in MDYY format(10/04/2011).
Then do a 
  WHERE <your date field> LE FROM_DATE;


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