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VINH-DINH HO
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Thank you to Francis, Dan, Darin, njsden and Waz for your suggestions.
Will look for an answer and post if found.

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knegrotto
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I had a need to find out the date a reporting file was last updated.

I cobbled this solution together from posts on this forum and the user manuals and thought it might just help someone else.

It uses APP QUERY to dump a directory listing into system table FOCAPPQ which is defined in WebFocus.

I then queried the table to select the file I wanted and stored the date in a hold file which I then read.

Here is the sample code.

SET PCOMMA=ON
SET ALL=ON
APP QUERY CLECO_TEMP HOLD
TABLE FILE FOCAPPQ
WHERE FILENAME EQ 'IBIMRUSR.TXT' OR FILENAME EQ 'ibimrusr.txt'
PRINT DATE
ON TABLE SAVE AS FILEINFO FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN
-SET &TEXTDATE = 'NOT FOUND';
-READ FILEINFO, &TEXTDATE
-RUN

Other file attributes are also available (see definition of the FOCAPPQ table fo list).


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Francis Mariani
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This technique will work with flat files, not with database tables.


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