https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549679#M8715 Whenever i submit the job the job should create filename with previous<BR />month date and have to post that file to another sft server<BR /> Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:57:18 GMT Codepro 2019-04-09T15:57:18Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549603#M8703 <P>Dear users,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Can anyone help me in substituting previous month date values to the outputi filename?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Ex..if Apr 09 2019 current system date then my output filename should be as ...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>filename_Mar2019.txt</P> Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:49:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549603#M8703 Codepro 2019-04-09T13:49:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549615#M8704 <P>You can create the file name like these. What do you want to do from there?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data _null_; fn=cats('YOURPATHHERE\filename_', put(intnx('month', today(), -1, 'b'), monyy7.), '.txt'); put fn=; run;</CODE></PRE> Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:09:07 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549615#M8704 PeterClemmensen 2019-04-09T14:09:07Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549679#M8715 Whenever i submit the job the job should create filename with previous<BR />month date and have to post that file to another sft server<BR /> Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:57:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Date-values-in-filename/m-p/549679#M8715 Codepro 2019-04-09T15:57:18Z