Re: UDAY (Reserved Word)

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It seems that a lot of people have gotten into the habit of using the job 
> date to determine the current date.  I'm not really sure why, but I guess 
> it is probably because most interactive jobs don't run for more than one 
> day, or over midnight.

In the days of yore, we might want to run our end of month batch jobs 
over a weekend.  We'd insert a //DATE OCL card in the job stream to set 
the job date to say 30 June 2007.  Then, no matter which calendar day 
the job was run, all the reports would use 30 June as their date via UDATE.

In modern times, CHGJOB DATE() does the same thing.  So if you needed 
to, you could set your current job date back a month and re-run your end 
of month.
  --buck