RE: Retrieve JOB (not SYSTEM) date in SQL

[MKirkpatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I think the UDF is a great idea.  I have created one (my first) but it 
doesn't work quite right.

CREATE FUNCTION WDSSYS.GETJOBDATE ( ) 
        RETURNS DATE 
        LANGUAGE CL
        SPECIFIC WDSSYS.GETJOBDATE 
        NOT DETERMINISTIC 
        NO SQL 
        CALLED ON NULL INPUT 
        DISALLOW PARALLEL 
        EXTERNAL NAME 'MKIRKPAT/GETJOBDATE' 
        PARAMETER STYLE SQL ; 

My CL pgm:

pgm          parm(&jobdateymd)

             DCL        VAR(&JOBDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
             DCL        VAR(&JOBDATEYMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)

             RTVJOBA    DATE(&JOBDATE)
             CVTDAT     DATE(&JOBDATE) TOVAR(&JOBDATEYMD) TOFMT(*YYMD) 
TOSEP(*NONE)

             endpgm             

What am I missing?  Thanks.


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/03/2008 02:56:02 PM:

> I am not aware of an SQL special register or a built-in function that 
would
> give you a job date.  Writing a UDF that does this would be very simple
> though (CL or RPG), and you could reuse it elsewhere.
>
> HTH, Elvis
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> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Retrieve JOB (not SYSTEM) date in SQL
>
> I want to populate a date column in a table with the JOB DATE (not 
SYSTEM 
> DATE).  This is because we run for prior days on the current day.  I 
could 
> do this by using a variable in RPG on my INSERT stmt but would like to 
> avoid RPG and possibly do it using RUNSQLSTM.  CURRENT DATE gives me the 

> system date.  How could I get the JOB date to use in my INSERT stmt. 
> Thanks.
>
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