topic Re: entering dates & times in Operating System - OpenVMS

entering dates & times

Swanco — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:46:51 GMT

Please help:
what is wrong with this:
MONITOR/INPUT=(SYS$MONITOR:*MON.DAT;*,MON$ARCHIVE:*MON.DAT;*) /NODISPLAY/SUMMARY=MONSUM.SUM SYSTEM /BEGIN="YESTERDAY+0:0:0.00"/END="TODAY+0:0:0.00" /BY_NODE
Error:
MONITOR-E-BEGNLEND, beginning time not earlier than ending time

Re: entering dates & times

Hoff — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:09:48 GMT

Try

/BEGIN=YESTERDAY /END=TODAY

The rest of that stuff on those date specifications appears t be confusion on the details of VMS time syntax.

Make sure whatever VMS version you're running is patched, as there have been occasional bugs in this area over the years.

Re: entering dates & times

Swanco — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:16:58 GMT

I tried, its' still giving the same error.

Running I64VMS VMS V8.3-1H1

Re: entering dates & times

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:16:05 GMT

This message means that the beginning time IN THE FILE is not before the end in the command.

Hein.

Re: entering dates & times

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:41:38 GMT

btw...

You can verify the behaviour/error message by dropping the /BEGIN and just specifying /END

Also...

The 0:0:0.0 is implied in the symbolic name:

$ show time
19-OCT-2010 10:35:59
$ write sys$output f$cvtime("YESTERDAY")
2010-10-18 00:00:00.00
$ write sys$output f$cvtime("TODAY")
2010-10-19 00:00:00.00

Hein

Re: entering dates & times

Andy Bustamante — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:07:16 GMT

I'm sure everyone here will encourage collecting system performance data. But there's no need to reinvent the wheel. See http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/t4/ for an very nice monitoring toolkit.