System Date Change

Products

• CA 2E

Issue/Introduction

 After upgrading to 2E 8.7.4, customer states that if there is an interactive job running from the previous night and continues to the next day, such as it is running at midnight, the JOB.*DATE is not retrieving today's date after midnight.

Due to this, applications are loading the incorrect date after midnight leading to issues for users.

Environment

CA 2E 8.7.4

Resolution

Verified that this date/time functionality has not changed in CA 2E in a very long time.

The JOB.*DATE always retrieves the date when the job starts initially, even though it is called again past midnight. Since the job was was started prior to midnight on the previous night, the previous date is retrieved always for JOB.*DATE.

Suggested a workaround - use JOB.*System timestamp, instead of JOB.*DATE. 

Since there is no change in behaviour from 2E perspective, the application logic needs to be revisited.