On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:36:44 -0500, David Andrews wrote: > >> Is the reason for using manual processes strictly financial? > >It's certainly money here. During weekly sysmaint the system is >quiesced and we run a program by Axel Miller that interrogates a NTP >server and issues appropriate SET CLOCK commands to sync local time to >network time. > And the TOD just drifts? How does this affect critical timestamps kept in GMT? What do z/OS UNIX utilities (FTP?) show?
May I assume you don't have a sysplex which requires extremely precise synching of the TODs? Or with the system quiesced, do you actually issue an SCK instruction. (It's not Shmuel's dog.?) Is the hardware used by STP well enough documented in the PoOp (PrOp?) that one could write RYO (E)TOD steering code, driven by NTP? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
