Question about date and time in a CL program that spans two days.

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Maybe DCL &DATE *CHAR 6 RTVSYSVAL QDATE RTNVAR(&DATE) CHGJOB DATE(&DATE)

[Guest.Visitor]

Thank you! I think this is exactly what I want. I won't know till tomorrow if it works the way I hope it will, but I'll let you know.

[Guest.Visitor]

Hi, I hope there is an easy solution to this. We launch a program that starts around 9:30 pm every week night. It stays active til 6:30 the next morning. Every other hour it calls another program copies inbound EDI data (if any) to our work files. Each time the program is called, a report is produced showing the activity that occurred. It's sort of like a job log. The problem is that the date on the report shows the date that the intial CL was launched, not the true system date. This program is part of a third party software package and we don't have the source code. The CL that calls this program hourly is homegrown, however. Can one of you guru's out there tell me if there is a way to refresh the date, so that the current date will appear on the report? We would like to start running this program 24/7. Thanks

[Guest.Visitor]

It worked! Thanks also for your very fast reply to my question!