Re: System Date - can it be 'intercepted' ?

oops - as far as %date I misread the mail - you were referring to
changing the job date. Never mind ;-)




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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, 11 February 2011 9:24
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: System Date - can it be 'intercepted' ?

It can be done...I recall seeing lots of products in the late 1990's
that would do this...a google search turned up
http://www.inprointernational.com/tt4slk.htm

But I don't know how to do it myself....

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jim Wiant <Jim.Wiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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