Current Working Date

Working date is a Control-M concept that is generally useful in data centers. Basically it allows you to define your day to begin and end at some other time than midnight.

The advantage of using a working day in the production data center is that end of day jobs performed after midnight can have the same working date as jobs performed before midnight; they all have the same working day.

Each site defines its own working day for Control-M. Actually, the site defines the start time of the new working day, which also marks the end of the old working day.

For example, if the new working day at the site begins at 5:00 a.m.:

• A job that runs at 11:00 p.m. on September 9th, 2000 has the following dates (yymmdd format):
  • System date: 000909
  • Current working date: 000909
• A job that runs at 3:00 a.m. on September 9, 2000 has the following dates (yymmdd format):
  • System date: 000910
  • Current working date: 000909