<snip> I disagree with both. z/OS TOD clock is unaffected; user processes are suspended as necessary to preclude duplicate/anachronistic TIME readings. </snip>
I rarely remember the exact details, but I remember enough to know that the above is not correct in general. Spinning with nothing running (which you could consider to be "suspended"), until you could not get things appearing out of order, is one choice z/OS provides. It is not the only choice that z/OS provides, depending on your hardware configuration. Clock steering does happen. That might not mean that the machine slows down. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
