Understanding the Diagnostic Subsystem for AIX

getELAdates

Purpose

Return the start and end timestamp for retrieving error log entries.

Syntax

char *getELAdates ( notRTOmode ) 
int notRTOmode; 

Description

The getELAdates subroutine formats and returns a string containing the start and end timestamp that should be used for error log analysis. The end timestamp is the current date and time. The start timestamp is created using either the value specified by the Customized Diagnostic Attribute for run time options, or the value passed as a parameter. The string returned serves the same purpose as the date parameter of the TMInput object class.

Parameters

notRTOmode

Determines how the run time option value for the number of ELA days is used. If notRTOmode is 0, then the number of ELA days specified by the Customized Diagnostic Attribute for run time options is used to create the start timestamp. If notRTOmode is greater than 0, then the notRTOmode value is used as the number of ELA days when creating the start timestamp.

Return Value

The following string is returned:

-s MMddhhmmyy -e MMddhhmmyy 

where:

dd

is the 2-digit value for day

hh

is the 2-digit value for the hour in 24-hour format

mm

is the 2-digit value for minutes

yy

is the 2-digit value for year