On 2017-04-10, at 09:38, Ward, Mike S wrote: > Hello, list friends. I was wondering if one of you could give me a little > help with a time problem that I have not been able to solve. I have the need > to provide the number of seconds since 1970 for a project that I'm working > on. I have been using a combination of the STCK and the CONVTOD to try and > get the results, but I'm just not that good at math or time functions. If > someone could steer me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. > Any particular date in 1970?
STCK (Doesn't sound as if you need STCKE.) (Adjust with CVTLSO as desired.) 64-bit subtract 1970 value from STCK value. (Overflow likely; use SL) Divide by 4096. Divide by 1000000. (z/OS UNIX time() function gives this directly.) -- gil
