Pedantry follows: John McKown wrote of an STCKE value "it is 16 bytes in length . . . ", and this is literally true, but the rightmost two-byte programmable-field value is not part of the TOD value.
The leftmost 14-byte/112-bit substring is the TOD value. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN