Re: UDAY (Reserved Word)

Buck wrote on 06/06/2007 09:20:57:

It seems that a lot of people have gotten into the habit of using the

job

date to determine the current date. I'm not really sure why, but I

guess

it is probably because most interactive jobs don't run for more than

one

day, or over midnight.

In the days of yore, we might want to run our end of month batch jobs
over a weekend. We'd insert a //DATE OCL card in the job stream to set
the job date to say 30 June 2007. Then, no matter which calendar day
the job was run, all the reports would use 30 June as their date via

UDATE.

In modern times, CHGJOB DATE() does the same thing. So if you needed
to, you could set your current job date back a month and re-run your end

of month.

Thanks for the example Buck. That seems like a really slick way to handle
the "effective run date" problem.

- Adam

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