Capture the date and time thru JCL

Venkata Ramayya · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:41 pm

Hi,

Can we capture the current date and time thru DFSORT/ICETOOL?

I would appreciate if any one will get back to me.

Thanks
Venkat

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:05 pm

Yes. DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL have various date and time functions for various purposes such as DATE1, DATE=(4MD/), TIME1, TIME=(24:), etc.

Exactly which date and time function you'd use depends on what exactly you're trying to do. Your description "Can we capture the current date and time thru DFSORT/ICETOOL?" is too vague for me to tell you how to do what you want to do. You need to describe what you're trying to do in more detail.

Venkata Ramayya · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:17 pm

Thanks for you quick response Frank..

I want to store the date and time in a parm card like this

----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7--
MMDDYY HHMMSS

I will validate the time in the parm card and base on the time I will set a trigger to some set of jobs thru sastrlr step.

Thanks
Venkat

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:28 pm

Here's a DFSORT job that will do what you asked for:

Venkata Ramayya · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:03 am

I tested this code. It's working. Thanks for your help.

Thanks
Venkat