Re: Override a system value

It depends on how the program gets dates. If it uses %timestamp or the
TIMSTP opcode, the date and time will be the system date and time, not hte
job's date and time. That is the way we write all of our programs. However,
many of them do have from/to date prarmeters for just that reason. Our shop
standard is to never, ever, use UDATE (or U-anything else).


On Jan 7, 2008 3:18 PM, <smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Will changing the Job Date work for you?
CHGJOB DATE(010207)
before issuing the call to your program. The format of job date needs to
match the job date defined on your system.

Steve

Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express




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Override a system value






I am trying to recreate a problem from a job that ran last week. I
don't have the job log anymore. I've tried running the job in the same
environment (same JOBD, no changes to the major driving files that I can
find) and I get the expected results.

The one difference between the my test run and the failed run is that
I'm specifying the date this time,
CALL PGM(PGMA) PARM('2007-01-02')

instead of
CALL PGM(PGMA) PARM(' ')

which is the usual way of calling the program. When no parameter is
supplied, the current date ( %date() ) is used.

I was wondering if there a way to override the system time for a given
job. I've checked the archives, 'GO CMDOVR' and the Infocentre's API
finder, and I'm not sure where else to look. Is this a loony idea, or
does someone know of a way to do this?
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