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Enigma006
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hi

&DATEMtr gives the name of current month.
how could I get the next two month names which means september and october?

thank you

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Dan Satchell
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Try this, but make certain you set it back to TODAY when you are finished:

SET TESTDATE = 20110901
-RUN
-TYPE &DATE
-TYPE &DATEMtr
-*
SET TESTDATE = 20111001
-RUN
-TYPE &DATE
-TYPE &DATEMtr
-*
SET TESTDATE = TODAY
-RUN
-TYPE &DATE
-TYPE &DATEMtr


P.S.: The persistence of SET TESTDATE spans only the current WF server session, which means it will not affect subsequent jobs that you may run. It is a nice tool for testing date-sensitive programs without having to alter the code because it allows the developer to set the "system" date to any year, month, and day.

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Waz
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SET TESTDATE


Wow, Another new thing learned today.

This will be very useful.

Good One


Waz...

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Jim Morrow
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TESTDATE was IBI gave us to help get ready for the new millennium. You could test like it was next century, and be sure ready for the Y2K bug to strike. Smiler

It is also useful doing cycle checking etc.


Jim Morrow
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njsden
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Great tip Dan.

Oh man, this would have been so useful in a few past cases where I needed to simulate something silly with a whole bunch of amper variables.

Better late than never! and as Waz clearly predicted this will be very useful indeed.


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Waz
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Interesting....

I wasn't told about it when I was doing Y2K stuff, and I was working for IBI at the time.

Frowner


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j.gross
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I remember that one.

It's probably mentioned on Compuserv.

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njsden
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The day finally came to test the wonders of SET TESTDATE and it does help a lot.

I had to test different day-based scenarios and was trying to fake silly dates in &variables for each case but the code was looking ugly and I knew I needed to set it back to &YYMD eventually as that's how it's intended to work going to Production. I then remembered reading something about TESTDATE before here at Focal Point, came looking, found it, used it and it really made it a breeze to test my different scenarios while still keeping &YYMD as my "base date".

Thanks Dan for the tip.


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