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Don Robison
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Is there away to assign a –DEFAULT field with the system date?

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Spence
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-DEFAULTS &SYSTEM_DATE = &DATEMDYY;
or
-SET &SYSTEM_DATE = &YYMD;


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jimster06
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Or if you want to set your own date for testing

SET TESTDATE = {yyyymmdd|TODAY}

This was very handy in the the days right before Y2K


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TexasStingray
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I could not get option 1 to work here is what I did.

-DEFAULTS &SYSTEM_DATE = xxxx;
-SET &SYSTEM_DATE = IF &SYSTEM_DATE EQ 'xxxx' THEN &DATEMDYY ELSE &SYSTEM_DATE;
-TYPE &SYSTEM_DATE;


Hope this helps




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Spence
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-DEFAULTS &SYS_DATE = &DATEMDYY;
-TYPE &SYS_DATE.EVAL


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susannah
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-DEFAULT &MYDATE = &YYMD.EVAL ;
works for me.
but when prompting, (as in Report Caster), you need to explicitly overwrite the '&YYMD.EVAL' with a number.
When running a fex from a launch page, it works just fine.
If you want to avoid prompting (but why would you?) then
-DEFAULTH &MYDATE = &YYMD.EVAL ;

Its the .EVAL at the end that does the trick.
Without it, focus thinks you're creating a variable called &MYDATE equal tothe character string '&YYMD';



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Waz
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Using .EVAL is the safest way to do this as it gets evaluated before the line is.

Be wary of -DEFAULT with multiple levels of -INCLUDEs. See 2nd -DEFAULT in -INCLUDE overrides 1st -DEFAULT in Parent


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