ASKTIME

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This command is used to update the date and time-of-day-clock and the fields EIBDATE and EIBTIME. These two fields contain initially the date and time when the task started and then are updates after execution of every EXEC CICS command.

ASKTIME ABSTIME(time)

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ABSTIME(time)

specifies the data area for the time, in packed decimal, since 00:00 on 1 January 1900 (in milliseconds rounded to the nearest hundredth of a second).You can use FORMATTIME to change the data into other familiar formats.