Request current date and time of day.
This command is threadsafe.
ASKTIME updates the date (EIBDATE) and CICS® time-of-day clock (EIBTIME) fields in the EIB. These two fields initially contain the date and time when the task started.
In response to an ASKTIME command, CICS issues an MVS™ STCK macro and modifies this by a local time difference. Thus, if your MVS TOD (hardware) clock is set to, say, GMT, and the local time is defined as British Summer Time (BST), it is BST that is stored in the EIBTIME field.
Refer to EXEC interface block for details of the EIB.
You can use FORMATTIME to change the data into other familiar formats.
EXEC CICS ASKTIME ABSTIME(utime)
“utime” contains a value similar in format to 002837962864820.
COBOL: PIC S9(15) COMP-3
C char data_area[8];
PL/I: FIXED DEC(15)
ASM: PL8