> Have you looked at the FORMATTED-TIME function? Thanks Paul, I did look at the FORMATTED-TIME function, but the finest resolution offered by that function is tenths of milliseconds (four fractional decimal digits), not even micro-seconds (which would require six fractional decimal digits). That is not sufficient for accurate application timing values on today's hardware. Two nearly-adjacent calls to that function are quite likely to return the same value.
I quote from the latest V6.4 COBOL Language Reference PDF, SC27-8713-03, Chapter 29, page 499: Table 58. The permissible format strings for fractional-seconds time Fractional-seconds time formats -|- Format literals Basic local time -|- hhmmss.ssss Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
