If accepting the system date as-is is OK for you, a simple statement in your "INIT" will do as tupendo noted. If, however, you are printing the date for a report and want something more like MMDDYY, you need to do the following:
Working Storage Section.
01 ws-date.
05 year-in pic 99.
05 month-in pic 99.
05 day-in pic 99.
01 report-hdr
05 pic x.
05 date-out.
10 month-out pic 99.
10 pic x value '/'.
10 day-out pic 99.
10 pic x value '/'.
10 year-out pic 99.
10 pic x value '/'.
100-INIT.
Accept ws-date from date
move month-in to month-out
move day-in to day-out
move year-in to year-out.
Turin
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