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Tim J
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Hello:
The more I read on dates, the more I get confused. I am trying to create a report that only includes records with dates in the previous month. The table has a field, CALL_DATE (USAGE=YYMD), that holds the date of incoming calls.

Since we will always run this report after the month end close, I want to look at TODAY and include any records that are a month older. For example, if I run the report today (2007/12/07), I want to pull all records from November 2007.

Any help would be great. I was working with &TODAY and AYM to get the year and month I wanted to look for, but I couldn't get the right commands to get CALL_DATE in that same format to do a WHERE CALL_DATE2 EQ &OUT. I was getting strange numbers in my attempts to reformat CALL-DATE.

 
-SET &TODAY = (&YYMD-1)/100;
-SET &OUT = AYM(&TODAY, -1, 'I6');


This sets &OUT to 200711, now how can I get CALL_DATE in this format in CALL_DATE2? Is there a better way other than the way I am approaching it?

Thanks,
Tim
 
Posts: 57 | Registered: February 24, 2004Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Here's one way:

-SET &ECHO=ALL;

-SET &DT1 = EDIT(&YYMD,'999999');
-SET &DT2 = AYM(&DT1, -1, 'I6');

-SET &DT_FROM = &DT2 | '01';
-SET &DT_TO   = &DT1 | '01';

-TYPE &DT_FROM - &DT_TO;

TABLE FILE SOMETHING
PRINT *
WHERE DB_DATE GE '&DT_FROM' AND DB_DATE LT '&DT_TO'
END


Francis


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Tim J
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Francis:

Thank You! That worked great! I saw that there is a book, 1001 Ways to Work with Dates in Focus. It sounds like a good purchase for me to make.

Have a great Holiday Season! Thank you for providing so much help to everyone on this forum! That goes for everyone on this great Focal Point Board!

Happy Holidays!

Tim
 
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JimRice
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Hi Tim,

Here's another idea using defined fields:

DEFINE FILE YOURFILE
CUR_DATE/YYMD = &YYMD;
CUR_MNTH/YYM = CUR_DATE;
PRV_MNTH/YYM = CUR_MNTH - 1;
-*
CALL_MNTH/YYM = CALL_DATE;
END
-*
TABLE FILE YOURFILE
PRINT *
WHERE CALL_MNTH EQ PRV_MNTH
END

Jim


WF DevStu 5.2.6/WF Srv 5.2.4/Win NT 5.2
 
Posts: 118 | Location: Lincoln Nebraska | Registered: May 04, 2005Report This Post
Darin Lee
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Using Francis suggestion would be more efficient because is allows the selections to be passed to the RDBMS. Using a DEFINEd field in a WHERE does not allow for this and should be avoided when possible.


Regards,

Darin


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FrankDutch
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Tim

We have in our EDASPROV.PRV file several && values defined.
One is the &&PREVMONTH that is based upon the actual date, so I always can point to that value and use it.

My solution would therefor be

DEFINE FILE SOMETHING
DBMONTH/YYM=DB_DATE;
END
TABLE FILE SOMETHING
PRINT *
WHERE DBMONTH EQ '&&PREVMONTH';
END


I can do the same with &&ACTYEAR or &&PREVYEAR etc




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

 
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Francis Mariani
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Now that's a good idea - sticking that code in edasprof.prf so the vars are available for all fexes (except for ReportCaster I assume). Thanks Frank.

Cheers,


Francis


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FrankDutch
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Francis

It works for RC as well (but that runs on the same server.
And if it was on an other server you can put the same settings on the other of course.




Frank
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