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?

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.

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'

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

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