SDAT PLAM System Date

SDAT For PLAM library elements:

The System Date of the element is recalculated as the number of days to today.

5 means, for example, that the element was last written to 5 days ago.

Selection parameter: >x | <x | =x or

in Date format: >dd. [mm. [yy] ] | <dd. [mm. [yy] ] | =dd. [mm. [yy] ]

If mm.yy or yy are omitted, then the current month and year will be substituted.

Notes:

When reorganising the library, the System Date of all elements will be updated to today's date, but the original User Date will be maintained.

For PLAM elements, the System Date has the same effect as the Creation Date for files, i.e. it is automatically updated by the system each time the element is written to. The User Date can be set by the user (see Variable Action ONXSETUDAT).

If the selection of PLAM library elements is to be made according to the System Date instead of the User Date, the SDAT command should be used (See page 18-).

Using the DATE command (page 18-) will result in the System Date of the library element being displayed in date form, and not as an age in days. Since the User Option column is only 5 bytes wide, the date will be truncated to YMMDD. Y is the last digit of the year (0, for example, represents 1990).