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Enigma006
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Hai,

I am trying to find 2 dates using today's date.
For example today is Monday, March 8th. I need 2 dates from this today's date which should be prior sunday (2010/02/28) and saturday (2010/03/06). I am able to get saturday's date but when I am trying for prior sunday its giving me 20100298..!! I used normal minus to subtract and DATEDIF function.

This is for a report which runs every monday using those dates as FROM and TO dates.

Can anyone tell me what mistake I am doing?

thanks a lot..

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Not running on a PS3 by any chance
 
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quote:
Not running on a PS3 by any chance

Good One


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..??!! :-|


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Enigma, can you post your code please? Maybe we can spot something you are missing.


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-SET &TODAY = 20100308;
-TYPE 20100308
20100308
-SET &DATE_TO = 20100308 - 2;
-TYPE 20100306
20100306
-SET &DATE_FROM = 20100306 - 6;
-TYPE 20100300
20100300
-SET &DATE_FROM1 = 20100306 - 8;
-TYPE 20100298
20100298
-EXIT


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Dan Satchell
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In Dialogue Manager, dates are treated like numbers, not dates. In order to treat numbers as dates, you must use a date function.

-SET &PR_SAT = AYMD(&YYMD,-2,'I8');
-SET &PR_SUN = AYMD(&YYMD,-8,'I8');


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-*-- Dialogue Manager Dates Example --------------------------------------------

-*-SET &INPUT_DATE = '20090317';
-*-SET &INPUT_DATE = &YYMD;
-SET &INPUT_DATE = '20100326';

-*-- Determine friendly dates
-SET &IND = DOWKL(&INPUT_DATE, 'A12') || (', ' | CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MXDYY', &INPUT_DATE, 'A17'));

-*-- Determine Monday (BOW) and Friday (EOW) dates for current date
-SET &BOW1 = DATECVT(DATEMOV(DATECVT(&INPUT_DATE, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD'), 'BOW'), 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');
-SET &EOW1 = DATECVT(DATEMOV(DATECVT(&INPUT_DATE, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD'), 'EOW'), 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');

-*-- Determine previous Saturday and Sunday dates, v1
-SET &PSA1 = DATECVT(DATEADD(DATECVT(&BOW1, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD'), 'D', -2), 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');
-SET &PSU1 = DATECVT(DATEADD(DATECVT(&BOW1, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD'), 'D', -1), 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');

-*-- Determine previous Saturday and Sunday dates, v2
-SET &PSA2 = AYMD(&BOW1, -2, 'I8YYMD');
-SET &PSU2 = AYMD(&BOW1, -1, 'I8YYMD');

-*-- Determine previous friendly dates
-SET &PSA3 = DOWKL(&PSA2, 'A12') || (', ' | CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MXDYY', &PSA2, 'A17'));
-SET &PSU3 = DOWKL(&PSU2, 'A12') || (', ' | CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MXDYY', &PSU2, 'A17'));

-*-- Determine next Saturday and Sunday dates, v1
-SET &NSA1 = DATECVT(DATEADD(DATECVT(&EOW1, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD'), 'D', +1), 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');
-SET &NSU1 = DATECVT(DATEADD(DATECVT(&EOW1, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD'), 'D', +2), 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');

-*-- Determine next Saturday and Sunday dates, v2
-SET &NSA2 = AYMD(&EOW1, +1, 'I8YYMD');
-SET &NSU2 = AYMD(&EOW1, +2, 'I8YYMD');

-*-- Determine next friendly dates
-SET &NSA3 = DOWKL(&NSA2, 'A12') || (', ' | CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MXDYY', &NSA2, 'A17'));
-SET &NSU3 = DOWKL(&NSU2, 'A12') || (', ' | CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MXDYY', &NSU2, 'A17'));

-*-- DISPLAY DATES ---
-TYPE ============================================
-TYPE INPUT DATE: &INPUT_DATE &IND
-TYPE --------------------------------------------
-TYPE PREVIOUS
-TYPE &PSA1 &PSA2 &PSA3
-TYPE &PSU1 &PSU2 &PSU3
-TYPE --------------------------------------------
-TYPE NEXT
-TYPE &NSA1 &NSA2 &NSA3
-TYPE &NSU1 &NSU2 &NSU3
-TYPE ============================================


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As an alternate solution, you could TABLE into a HOLD file and then -READ values into variables.
Any table with a MFD should work. We use Oracle so example uses DUAL.

DEFINE FILE DUAL
CWS/YYMD WITH DUMMY = DATEMOV('&DATEYYMD','BOW'); -- Using current date, determines first day of the week 20100308
PWS/YYMD = CWS-8; -- Determines the previous Sunday 20100228
END
TABLEF FILE DUAL
PRINT CWS PWS
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 1 -- Limits processing to one read
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN
-READ HOLD &CWS.A8. &PWS.A8.
-TYPE Result CWS=&CWS PWS+&PWS
Result &CWS=20100308 &PWS=20100228

Hope it helps.


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