ASKTIME command

Requests current date and time of day. In Smalltalk, the parameters of the ASKTIME command are contained in two classes: CICSAsktime and CICSAsktimeResult.

See CICS Application Programming Reference for the syntax of the command and a description of its parameters.

Defined instance methods

Parameters supplied to CICS in CICSAsktime

None.

Parameters returned by CICS in CICSAsktimeResult

 

Parameter	Instance method	Mode	Type	Notes/exceptions
ABSTIME(data-area)	abstime	Output	Packed(8)	In packed decimal format
RESP	resp	Output	Fixed(2)	Inherited from CICSResult.
RESP2	resp2	Output	Fixed(2)	Inherited from CICSResult.

Example

Asks for the time. The result, in the ABSTIME parameter, is in packed decimal format. To display the time, use the FORMATTIME command.

| result abstime formattimeResult |

result := CICS asktime exec.

abstime := result abstime.

formattimeResult := CICS formattime

abstime: abstime;

datesep: $/;

timesep: $:;

exec.

Transcript show: (formattimeResult time).