UDATE question

[Huddy]

Hi,

Hope you can shed some light on this. I have an overnight job that stamps the start and end date and times to a file using an RPG program that's called from a CLP.

Occasionally, this job crosses midnight and when it does we have problems. When looking at the file, the times are stamped correctly but the dates remain the same .. i.e.

start date and time 2011-11-07 22:10:42
end start and time 2011-11-07 01:02:32 - Should be 2011-11-08???

The RPG program is only called when the controlling CLP started and again when the CLP is ended. On both occasions LR is set-on.

So my question is, does UDATE not change during the current job? It appears the UDATE is Job Start date

Thanks for looking

[B.Hauser]

Re: UDATE question

UDATE and *DATE are always the job date.
System date must be determined with either OPCODE TIME or built-in-function %DATE()

Birgitta

[Huddy]

Re: UDATE question

Thank you for the confirmation.

This I never knew rep updated

[Poddys]

Re: UDATE question

It's one of those things that everyone ought to know, but more often than not, especially these days, is found out the hard way

[Huddy]

Re: UDATE question

20 odd years of should've known.. I'm ashamed

[Poddys]

Re: UDATE question

I began work on S/34 in 1980 and have worked solidly on S/36, S/38 and AS400's ever since.

However, in the last few years I have been working more on JD Edwards, where a number of tasks are done a different way, and more recently using other tools like Websmart.

I find it very hard to remember some of the things that I was really familiar with years ago, because I haven't used them, and in the meantime things have also changed.

Even now I am the only one on our site programming in RPGLE and RPG/Free, the others still almost always use RPG4, which is IMHO a lot slower to code with, especially when it comes to dealing with strings.

[kitvb1]

Re: UDATE question

...I find it very hard to remember some of the things that I was really familiar with years ago, because I haven't used them, and in the meantime things have also changed. ...

my excuse is that it is because I'm getting old

[Poddys]

Re: UDATE question

my excuse is that it is because I'm getting old

Well yeah, mine too