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[John Corbin]

How can I get the current system date using either REXX or a TSO function.... ?

I am on a MVS mainframe running OS390

[Dibakar]

What do you want to do, what is the required format. I use "TSO TIME" if I forgot the date.

[superk]

I'm not sure if I understand the question correctly, but you can get the current system date in REXX by using the DATE() function. A few examples are:

Say Date() = 28 Jan 2004
Say Date(U) = 01/28/04
Say Date(S) = 20040128
Say Date(J) = 04028
Say Date(D) = 28

The current system date is stored in a few ISPF global variables, which you can view in ISPF Option 7.3:

zdate = 04/01/28
zdatestd = 2004/01/28
zjdate = 04.028
zj4date = 2004.028

The TSO command TIME returns the following information:

TIME-08:51:34 AM. CPU-00:00:00 SERVICE-751 SESSION-00:00:00 JANUARY 28,2004

[kolusu]

John,

You can use the function DATE for getting the current date. check this link for a detailed explanation of the function DATE . By default, the function returns the local date in the format: dd mon yyyy.

Check this link for a detailed explanation of DATE

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A330/4.3.16?DT=20020521161835

Check this link for a detailed explanation on the function TIME

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A330/4.3.62?DT=20020521161835

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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[John Corbin]

Thanks much for the help... The REXX date function fits the bill.

thanks again