You seem to be looking for PICK - eg pick w8 >> ,20140225,
The classic approach would be to inject a dummy record in the stream, sort
on date, and ignore all records before the dummy.
PS It would be cheating to remind you of the AFTER option on LISTFILE ;-)
On 27 June 2014 16:14, Gentry, Steve <steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com>
wrote:
> In a CMS environment, I have a list of files, created by LISTFILE. The
> format of the file_type, in this list, will be DATE('S') yyyymmdd
> I want to take a predetermined date, already in DATE('S') format, and
> compare it to the above mentioned file_type. If the file type date is less
> than or equal to the predetermined date I want to ignore it. Or if the
> file type date is greater than the predetermined date, I want to pass it on
> to the next stage. I was hoping for a PIPE stage that would do this type
> of logical compare but I didn't find one, or at least one with an obvious
> name/function. If there is a stage, please let me know. However, if there
> isn't a stage to do this, I think I'll have to do this with a SPEC stage.
> While I've gotten better at writing pipe code, the SPEC stage is still a
> challenge for me and hence the need for a SPECS guru.
> Could someone help with this SPECs stage?
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
