Re: STRWCH question

[Joe Wood <wood3875@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don - clle watch pgms are memory resident and any change/compilation to the
*pgm will not take place until you end and restart the watch.

I’ll look for timestamp advice tomorrow.

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
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> I am testing a watch program to process messages from the QSYSMSG message
> queue.
>
> In the program I have at the very beginning to enable verbose debugging
> while I do testing
>
> chgjob log(4 0 *seclvl) logclpgm(*yes)
>
> But I can find any active or ended job or spool file with the joblog
> details.  I know the program is being called as I receive an email that is
> generated from the watch program.
>
> My second question is in the event data provided to the watch program
> there is Message timestamp, type char(8) that I want to convert to a value
> that can be used in a message but what I have tried has failed and
> searching has not been successful in finding the format this value is in.
>
> 378
> 17A
> CHAR(8)
> Message timestamp
>
> Any suggestions or links appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Don
>
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