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The Process Timer program determines the length of time between a start and end time.  This may be used for such things as reporting the length of time it takes a process to run.

Process Timer Program

Instructions:

This can be called from a CL or RPG program using RTVSYSVAL / QTIME or TIME to retrieve the start and end times when using this program to calculate process times.

Call the program with 3 parms.

Parm 1 - Start time 6 alpha.

Parm 2 - End time 6 alpha.

Parm 3 - Blank - 8 alpha.

The process timer will return the the length of time in Parm 3.  The format will be HH.MM.SS

* Note depending on system settings the separator characters may have to be changed in the Process Timer program.