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  3. April 2006

RE: displaying running clock in Screen ?

Hi Luqman

>> A software standard can be:
>> * Subroutine in the Program to get the latest Date & Time, which might
>> get there via /COPY from a standard library of routines.
>> * Call that Subroutine from each of the subroutines that handles the 
>> i/o of each kind of scree, associated with pressing enter key, function
>> keys, etc.
>> * Display the time & date in a standard location on screens, such as
>> upper right corner

You don't need to retrieve the date and time to display on your screen, you
can simply use the TIME and DATE keywords in your DDS to display the current
date and time each time the screen is output.

Jonathan

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