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Are you testing in a separate box or another LPAR? Somewhere where testing can be isolated?

steve

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Wiant
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: System Date - can it be 'intercepted' ?

Due to architectural decisions I can't control, developers continue to
use %date as the usual way to get the date into a program. But from a
testing standpoint this makes things very difficult. Many things are
date-dependant but need to be tested before that date occurs. And I am
trying to emphasize automated testing so the advice recently given to me
of 'run it in debug and change the date' isn't good enough. That's bad
testing form anyway...

I did some digging and I can't find a way to override or control the
system date other than changing the date, which again is not my first
choice because it will affect all testing not just the one I want and
the impact on the journals scare me anyway.

I need to be able to programmatically control the system date a program
gets whether it be CL, COBOL or RPG without actually changing the system
date itself.

Thanks

James P. Wiant
Test System Administrator
Foodstuffs, Auckland, Ltd.
60 Roma Road
Mt Roskill
Auckland, New Zealand 1041
09-621-0774
jim.wiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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