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CA TLMS Internal Date Format

All internal date fields in CA TLMS are stored as 4 bytes, packed length. The format of the internal date is ccyyddds, where ccyy is the century and year combined (0099=1999, 0100=2000 and so on, ddd is the Julian day of the year, and s is the sign (always positive). CA TLMS does not attempt to maintain the sign as a particular value, but guarantees the value to be positive.

Internal dates can be manipulated by the TLMDATE macro. The chart provided in Appendix C of this guide lists each CA TLMS expiration date keyword, and the equivalent internal date stored by CA TLMS.