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<bapper>
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I am trying to use a where stmt and compare my oracle date field (ACCT_D) to today's system date or yesterday, or the day before, etc. The field is in HYYMDS format. It looks like this 2004/08/24 00:00:00AM

I need to say something like "WHERE ACCT_D EQ &YYMD", but this does not work.

Can anybody help?
 
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susannah
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You need to get your system variable into the same format, so the only way i know to do that is to define a variable in the ds you're reading:

NEWTIME/HYYMDIA WITH somevar=DT(&YYMD 00:00AM);
NICEDAY/HYYMDS = NEWTIME;

Then your variable NICEDAY can be compared to your db variable, both in dt format, if that's what you need to do.
 
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<Pietro De Santis>
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You could do this:

-SET &FR_DT = EDIT(&YYMD,'9999-99-99') || '-00.00.00.000000';
-SET &TO_DT = EDIT(&YYMD,'9999-99-99') || '-23.59.59.999999';

WHERE ACCT_D FROM '&FR_DT' TO '&TO_DT'
 
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Tom Walker
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As you know, the Oracle date type is really a date-time-stamp. If you want WebFocus to treat the Oracle date field as format YYMD/DATE instead of format HYYMDS, you can simply add the following line to your server profile (EDASPROF.PRF) ...

SQL SQLORA SET DATETIME OFF
 
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jimster06
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In an application where selection is done by comparing an H-format date to an &VAR such as
YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.mmmmmm
, give this a shot:

WHERE H_FORMAT_DATE GE DT (&VAR)

Note the DT, it tells WebFOCUS (or FOCUS) to make the proper comparison.

HTH
 
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