DB - postgres SELECT tt.created_date FROM test_table tt WHERE DATE(uc.created_stamp) = DATE($P{ic_date}) Here, ic_date is a parameter created using ireport. parameter (ic_date) class is java.util.Date If default value expression is required, enter like this, new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse("2008-01-01") Hope this will help many since it took some time for me to figure out the same.