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  • Subject: RE: testing a batch RPG pgm which uses the TIME opcode
  • From: Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:51:37 -0400

Joel Stone wrote:

- snip about writing your own timestamp function-

>Great idea, and I normally do this in 
>my pgms.  But I am testing other 
>pgms, some of which I may not have 
>access to source, others I cannot modify.
>
>Is it impossible to modify the TIME result 
>for a specific job?

I have not personally done it, but I think that the Y2K testing tools did
this.  If this were the System/3 I would write my own TIME and $OLINK it
into my object code instead of using the RPG library version.  I mention
this solely to spark ideas in readers' minds - not to start a geezerfest.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
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 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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