We've used 'sysplex timer' exclusively to control time zone since the days of 9037 in the mid-90s. It's now STP (Server Time Protocol), no longer an external gizmo but optional hardware in the CEC.
The 9037's biggest limitation was that it had to be (re)programmed for each time change, so you could not reach out further than six months. STP has no such limitation. It's essentially programmed permanently so that it never again needs fiddling with once a CEC is installed. Our three CECs got through 'spring back' with no manual intervention. Or IPLs. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Speaking of time change... has anyone used the Sysplex timer option to automatically switch time zones? I was updating the timer on Friday to change the timezone on Sunday AM @ 02:00 and just noticed the option to adjust the time automatically, I didn't do any research yet but I'm wondering if anyone's use it? also we set an environmental variable for time zone in the CEE parms, currently CST6CDT, I updated the parms on my test system to use ENVAR("TZ=CST+6CDT+5,M3.3.0/2,M11.2.0/2") - does this work as advertised? any got ya's ? thanks Carmen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
