DLPD (8-byte character string)

Date when message was put on dead-letter (undelivered-message) queue.

The format used for the date when this field is generated by the queue manager is:

where the characters represent:

YYYY
year (four numeric digits)
MM
month of year (01 through 12)
DD
day of month (01 through 31)

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is used for the DLPD and DLPT fields, subject to the system clock being set accurately to GMT.

The length of this field is given by LNPDAT. The initial value of this field is 8 blank characters.