If by "within a particular subtask" you mean "not my task, but a subtask of it", then you're mostly on your own. There are no programming interfaces provided to accomplish that. And no control block fields that contain time for a task are programming interfaces.
If you're interested in time for "my task", and if you happen to be running on a machine with the ECTG instruction available, then TIMEUSED ECTG=YES,STORADR=x is far and away the best. The output is not in "MIC", it will be in TOD clock units. Alternately, TIMEUSED ECTG=COND,STORADR=x,LINKAGE=SYSTEM can be used. It will get the fast path if ECTG is available, and a slower PC-entered path if ECTG is not available. As Binyamin correctly pointed out, if you look at system control blocks (such as TCBTTIME) you will not pick up the time since the last dispatch. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
