DATEWS

The data structure in DATEWS contains all work areas and result areas for date evaluations, comparisons, and expansions. Dates from application programs are moved here for processing and checking. This area is a working area as opposed to that described by BEGIN17. BEGIN17 holds the date and time obtained when the program or transaction started, and is generally used as read-only.

This data structure is included in every application program that uses date evaluation routines. All date processing routines expect input into this area and leave the results in this area.