TRANSFER Reference Manual

Commonly Used Fields
TISERV UOW Descriptions
069139, Update 1 to 40969 Tandem Computers Incorporated 2–7
DATE-TIME Field Several UOWs have fields that include the DATE-TIME DDL definition that governs
the format of various dates and times that appear in the package header item. This
definition is specified as:
DEF date-time.
02 year PIC 9(4).
02 month PIC 9(2).
02 day-of-month PIC 9(2).
02 hour PIC 9(2).
02 minute PIC 9(2).
02 second PIC 9(2).
END.
The DATE-TIME field can have values in the following ranges:
YEAR 1975 through 2099
MONTH 1 through 12
DAY-OF-MONTH 1 through 31
HOUR 0 through 23
MINUTE and SECOND 0 through 59
In a reply, the TRANSFER delivery system returns a DATE-TIME of all zeros for a
time that has not been established; for example, the submission time of a package that
has not been submitted.
DELTA-TIME Field Several UOWs have fields that include the DELTA-TIME DDL definition that indicates
a period of time. This definition is specified as:
DEF delta-time.
02 quantity PIC 9(4) COMP.
02 units PIC A.
02 filler PIC X.
END.
QUANTITY
specifies the number of the time periods specified in the UNITS field.