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Aster
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Hi,
I want to set the value of &NOW to the current time stamp in Oracle format
(like 17-MAY-13 10.03.05.000000000 PM).
Please help.

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Wep5622
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That strongly depends on your NLS settings in Oracle. The most reliable method of obtaining that information is querying it from Oracle.


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BabakNYC
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How do you plan to use &NOW? Is this for a WHERE test?

If you're trying to format a date/time there are a lot of ways to mask them for display. Here's an example in DEFINE and TABLE.
 DEFINE FILE CAR
ORAC_NOW/HYYMD-sB WITH COUNTRY = DT_CURRENT_DATETIME(MICROSECOND);
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR ORAC_NOW
BY COUNTRY
END

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FP Mod Chuck
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Hi Aster

Welcome to Focal Point. This is a great resource for getting answers to your development questions.

I agree with Web5622 that getting this info directly from Oracle would be the easiest because the internal data functions with WebFOCUS do not format them to be Oracle specific. I found this link that tells how to do this with Oracle. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19...200/functions037.htm Once you have this value you can set &NOW to that value. I am assuming you want to use SQL passthru for a query back to Oracle after you have it..


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