Automation of assigning Substitution Variable Values

Hi All,
I have 3 substitution variables with values in my server as follows:
Prev Month - "January"
Curr Month - "February"
Next Month - "March"
I want to automate the assigning of values to the substitution variables so that in the next month, the values change automatically as follows:
Prev Month - "February"
Curr Month - "March"
Next Month - "April"
Is there any way available to accomplish the above task.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Raja

Ditto Sean V. Except the date logic I built into a Perl script. So basically one answer is to use your favorite scripting/programming language to do the date manipulation and either pass to a MAXL script as a variable, or to build the MAXL script dynamically

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The requirement is to have numeric value to a substitution variable. In essbase there is a provision to set numeric value to a substitution variable . i tried out the below one its not working.
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I have seen this note in dbag :
If a substitution variable value is numeric, different rules apply for how you enter the variable:
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i got the way to do

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In our report script, whenever there is a small change in say Product then we need to update several Rows/code in Report scripts.We were using Rename script for the same like -
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Hi,
Your thinking is sound and creative, however due to the way they work you can't define a subvar as a concatenation of other subvars because it will be interpreted literally. e.g.
sv1 = hello
sv2 = world
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