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ColdWhiteMilk
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I have a global "SET" variable equal to '20100802', that now I'm trying to create a new global variable of '2010-08-02', and pass it to a web service as HYYMDm

Is the best solution to use the code below?

-SET &SMARTGOLIVE2 = DATECVT('2010-08-02', 'A10YYMD', 'HYYMDm');

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Dan Satchell
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Function DATECVT cannot be used to create date-time values. I think function HINPUT is probably what you are looking for. By the way, "global" variables have two ampersands (ex. &&SMARTGOLIVE2) and local variables have just one ampersand.

EDIT: It just occurred to me that date-time functions like HINPUT probably don't work in Dialogue Manager. You may need to do the conversion inside a TABLE request or as a DEFINE function.

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ColdWhiteMilk
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I guess I'm not asking this correctly.

Right now, I have:

-SET &SMARTGOLIVE = DATECVT('20100802', 'I8YYMD', 'I8YYMD');


I need the resulting value of &SMARTGOLIVE to be 2010-08-02, but be in HYYMDm format so that it can be passed to a web service parameter that is expecting that format.


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njsden
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See this:

-DEFAULT &MYDATE = '20120802';
-SET &SMARTGOLIVE = HINPUT (8, &MYDATE, 12, 'HYYMDm');
-SET &DATEBACK = HCNVRT (&SMARTGOLIVE, '(H23)', 23, 'A23');

-TYPE Original: &MYDATE
-TYPE HYYMDm native format: &SMARTGOLIVE
-TYPE HYYMDm "human" format: &DATEBACK


Dialogue Manager can handle those data types but does your web service really expect the parameter in "native" format?

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