How include time & date in the report generation in cobol programing?

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gowda

  • Aug 5th, 2005
 

this can be done in 2 ways, 1 is u can enter the date by user itself or u can excpet date form system into requried formate date/time variable, then u can get time and day into ur report generation file

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TheMadProfessor

  • Oct 12th, 2009
 

The current method supported by most compiles is to use code like the following: 

MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO SOME-FIELD.

This will place the system timestamp in CCYYMMDDHHMMSSmmmmmmm format into SOME-FIELD.

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kalone

  • May 19th, 2011
 

There are 2 methods to include Time and date :

1.  Move FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE  to WS-Timestmp.

2a. Accept WS-timestmp  from DATE .
2b. Accept WS-timestmp  from TIME .

   

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nikaturbina

  • Jun 1st, 2011
 

1) Get the current date using MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (1:8) TO WS-DATE
2) Get the current time using MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (9:6) TO WS-TIME

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