current_day

Specifies the day of the month required to be returned when the ACCEPT identifier FROM DATE syntax or the CURRENT-DATE intrinsic function is used.
Restrictions:
  • Micro Focus does not recommend use of this tunable in an Enterprise Server environment.
  • This tunable is supported for native COBOL only.

Syntax:

>>-----set current_day=---integer------><

Parameters:

integer A value in the range 1 through 31, representing the required day of the month. The value you specify is returned when you use the ACCEPT identifier FROM DATE syntax or the CURRENT-DATE intrinsic function.

Properties:

Default: The current day specified by the system clock.
IDE equivalent:

Comments:

If the datewarp_dynamic tunable is set to TRUE, the day value specified is treated as the day the clock is started, and changes each time the system clock passes midnight.