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MacLonghorn
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Should be real simple. I'm trying to get current quarter for today's date in dialogue manager. I've tried using the DATECVT function, but I'm probably not doing it right. The idea is to display QYY format for today's date ("Q4 2009"):

 -SET &ASOFDATE = DATECVT(&MDYY, 'I8MDYY', 'MDYY');
-SET &MYDATE = DATECVT(&ASOFDATE, 'MDYY', 'QYY');
-TYPE &MDYY - &ASOFDATE - &MYDATE

I'd love some help from anyone who knows how to use WF dates.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


Thanks.

Mark
WF 7.6 Windows
 
Posts: 150 | Registered: July 26, 2007Report This Post
Darin Lee
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Dialogue Manager is not very good with dates. It handles numbers well and strings well, but is pretty dumb when it comes to dates and requires quite a bit of trickery to get the simplest calculations.

In any case, it does not know what the format of QYY would be as DM can only use string or alpha formats and QYY is a date format. If you converted to A6YYM, this would work. However, DM does not appear to know about quarter translations (or date translations either, for that matter - fails with MTrY)

Your best bet would be to edit the month out of the I8MDYY string and then
IF &MTH EQ '01 OR '02' OR '03 THEN 'Q1'....
and then paste it back with the year.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
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Darin Lee
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Your other alternative is to do this in a DEFINE where the date formats are recognized and more easily manipulated.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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WF_Novice
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DEFINE FILE CAR
FIRST_QTR/MDYY  = '01202009' ;
SECOND_QTR/MDYY = '04202009' ;
THIRD_QTR/MDYY  = '08202009' ;
FOUTH_QTR/MDYY  = &MDYY ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
FIRST_QTR FIRST_QTR/Q
SECOND_QTR SECOND_QTR/Q
THIRD_QTR THIRD_QTR/Q
FOUTH_QTR FOUTH_QTR/Q
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
END
 
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WF_Novice
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Quater can be attained from DML too..
  
-SET &ASOFDATE = DATECVT(&MDYY, 'I8MDYY', 'MDYY');
-TYPE &ASOFDATE ;
-SET &MYDATE1 = DATECVT(&ASOFDATE, 'YYMD', 'Q');
-TYPE &MYDATE1 ;
 
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MacLonghorn
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ok, i'm glad i wasn't totally missing something. Thanks for the DEFINE suggestion, I'll give that a shot. Otherwise, I'll just grab it manually.

Thanks all.


Thanks.

Mark
WF 7.6 Windows
 
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Danny-SRL
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Mark,

You could try using a function:
  
DEFINE FUNCTION QFUNC (DT/A8DMYY)
DDT/DMYY=DT;
QDT/Q=DDT;
ADT/A2=IF QDT EQ 'Q1' THEN 'Q1' ELSE 
IF QDT EQ 'Q2' THEN 'Q2' ELSE
IF QDT EQ 'Q3' THEN 'Q3' ELSE
IF QDT EQ 'Q4' THEN 'Q4' ELSE   
'XX' ;
QFUNC/A7=ADT | ' ' | EDIT(DT,'$$$$9999');
END
-RUN
-SET &DT1=&DMYY;
-SET &Q1=QFUNC(&DT1);
-TYPE &DT1 &Q1


Daniel
In Focus since 1982
wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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