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How to change the system date (EIBDATE)

 
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Rahul_kumar
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:10 pm    Post subject: How to change the system date (EIBDATE)
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Hi,

For SIT ,I need to test the code for future date,thereby want to change the system date.Can anyone please let me know how the EIBDATE can be changed for a specific CICS region.I don't want to do it through Xpeditor.

Thanks in advance

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Anshul
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:36 pm    Post subject:
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you can't change the eibdate
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply to: How to change the system date (EIBDATE)
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when there was the stress of the Y2k preparation,
there were many software which provided a temporary date change facility...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:01 pm    Post subject:
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hourglass or tictock - think it is hourglass

3rd party product, you gotta pay.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:05 pm    Post subject:
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Aflac uses TicToc (not sure of the spelling), and their QA regions are currently running a decade and a half into the future, skipping a month every week....
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:35 pm    Post subject:
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Bill, you are absolutely correct, the name is TicToc.

O.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply to: How to change the system date (EIBDATE)
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If you can change your MVS TOD hardware clock, you can issue an ASKTIME command in CICS without any third party tools.
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Bill O'Boyle

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:14 am    Post subject: How to change the system date (EIBDATE)
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Download and Install IBM SupportPac "CH15" (The CICS Time Machine) -

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24009281

Best of all, it's FREE!

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Bill
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:48 am    Post subject:
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Good call Bill....
I hadn't even thought along those lines.....
(another) Bill
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