ASKTIME
Request current date and time of day.
Description
ASKTIME updates the date (EIBDATE) and CICS® time-of-day clock (EIBTIME) fields in the EIB. These two fields initially contain the date and time when the task started.
In response to an ASKTIME command, CICS issues an MVS™ STCK macro and modifies this by a local time difference. For example, if your MVS TOD (hardware) clock is set to GMT, and the local time is defined as British Summer Time (BST), it is BST that is stored in the EIBTIME field.
For details of the EIB, see EIB fields.
Options
- ABSTIME(data-area)
- Specifies the data area for the number of milliseconds since 00:00
on 1 January 1900, which is known as absolute time. The time is taken
from the system time-of-day clock, adjusted for leap seconds and to
apply the local timezone offset (including daylight saving time),
truncated to the millisecond, and returned as a packed decimal of
length 8 bytes.
You can use FORMATTIME to change the data into other familiar formats.
Example
For example, after the following
command runs:
EXEC CICS ASKTIME ABSTIME(utime)utime contains a value similar in format to 002837962864820.
The format of data-area is:
COBOL: PIC S9(15) COMP-3
C: char data_area[8];
PL/I: FIXED DEC(15)
ASM: PL8