Using the START_TIME keyword

The START_TIME keyword is available on some commands to specify the start (earliest) timestamp of the range of records to select for processing.

RUV assumes that you are supplying all timestamps in GMT. To determine the timestamp associated with BACKUP or an ARCHIVE file, run a REPORT command. This will assist you in selecting the GMT date which RUV recorded.

As shown in the following examples, you can specify the value of the START_TIME keyword in several formats. The earliest valid time is 1980. The default value is low values (X'0000000000000000').

• Without separators

  START_TIME(20092192014)

• With separators between each component value

  START_TIME(2009.219/20:14:00)
  START_TIME(2009219/20:14)
  START_TIME(2009.219.20.14.00)

You can use a slash (/), a period (.), or a colon (:) as a separator. No character (including spaces) other than a slash, period, or colon may separate time values.

You can use separators instead of a value to use the default value for that component value. Starting from the left, a separator character by itself specifies the default value for that position. For example, you can specify START_TIME( / /18) to specify 6:00 PM of the current day and current year. You can specify START_TIME(2009.1) to specify January 1, year 2009, hour 00:00:00.

• as hexadecimal store clock format
  Specify Xhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (a literal X followed by 16 hexadecimal digits) to supply a time in hexadecimal format.