Inquiry Date Processing Rules

You can enter the STARTDATE, ENDDATE, and DAYS parameters to limit the number of days that the Platform Server scans the requests. The Platform Server follows certain rules when calculating the inquiry date.

The following rules are followed when the Platform Server these parameters (assume that the date of today is 2008200):

• If both the STARTDATE and ENDDATE parameters are specified, the Platform Server ignores the DAYS parameter.
• If the STARTDATE, ENDDATE, and DAYS parameters are not defined, the Platform Server sets the STARTDATE and ENDDATE parameters to the date of today.

  For example, FUSINQ is treated as FUSINQ SDATE=2008200 EDATE=2008200.

• If the STARTDATE and ENDDATE parameters are not specified and the DAYS parameter is specified, the Platform Server sets the ENDDATE parameter to the date of today and the STARTDATE parameter to the date that is computed by subtracting the number of days defined by the DAYS parameter from the date of today.

  For example, FUSINQ DAYS=5 is treated as FUSINQ SDATE=2008196 EDATE=2008200.

• If the STARTDATE parameter and the DAYS parameter are specified, but the ENDDATE parameter is not specified, the Platform Server sets the ENDDATE parameter to the date that is computed by adding the number of days that is defined by the DAYS parameter to the STARTDATE parameter.

  For example, FUSINQ SDATE=2008190 DAYS=5 is treated as FUSINQ SDATE=2008190 EDATE=2008194.

• If the STARTDATE parameter is not specified, but the ENDDATE parameter and the DAYS parameter are specified, the Platform Server sets the STARTDATE parameter to the date computed by subtracting the number of days defined by the DAYS parameter from the ENDDATE parameter.

  For example, FUSINQ EDATE=YES DAYS=5 is treated as FUSINQ SDATE=2008195 EDATE=2008199.