Put date

Use this property to specify the put date for target messages (for input links) or source messages (for output links).

Use the YYYYMMDD format and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the time zone reference.

For input links only, this property is available only if you set Context mode to Set all.

Valid values

For input links, you can type one eight-character date value by using the YYYYMMDD format. There is no default value. If this value is blank for an input link, the default value for the target message is used, which is the current date.

For output links, you can type any combination of specific dates and ranges of dates in different ways:

A list of comma-delimited or space-delimited integers
A range of integers in the following format: YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD
A combination of lists and ranges that are comma-delimited or space-delimited

The total length of the combined values in this property must be between 8 and 256 characters. Each date must follow the eight-character YYYYMMDD format. There is no default value. If this value is blank for an output link, this property is not used for filtering messages.

You can use different ways to specify this value for input links and output links:

Specify the value at the job level. You type the value in this property, which sets the value at design time for all messages in this job. If, for some reason, you also specify the data element as a column in the schema (see below), the data element takes precedence over the property.
For input links, you can specify the value at the message level. Instead of this property, you specify a column in the schema for this value by selecting the corresponding value (see below) as the Data element value on the Columns tab. The value that is stored in each incoming message is then used during runtime processing when it is put on the queue. The value in the input link schema overrides the design-time value of this property at runtime.
For output links, you can view only the value in the Data element column that was retrieved when the message was read from the queue. Generally speaking, you use the data element on an output link when you plan to use this value later on in your job processing.

The data element for this property is WSMQ.PUTDATE.