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  3. June 2007

Re: UDAY (Reserved Word)

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.
--buck

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