I think this follow-on discussion is what makes this a good SHARE topic. There must be others that struggle with this and are not aware of all the inconsistencies in support/tools.
Gary Weinhold Senior Application Architect DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization Phone: +1.613.523.5500 x216<tel:+1.613.523.5500%20x216> Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [http://www.dkl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dkl_logo.png]<http://www.dkl.com/> Visit us online at www.DKL.com<http://www.dkl.com/> [http://www.dkl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/banner.png]<http://www.dkl.com/mailsig> E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. __________ On 2017-04-12 13:58, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2017-04-12, at 11:27, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: And one could also ask for full support of and regular automatic updates of the tz database, which AFAIK is not present at all in z/OS Unix. It's there in Java. Only. But updates are not automatic; the sysadmin must run a utility. Wouldn't PTFs in the normal stream make more sense? When I update a Linux system, every couple weeks I get a new tzdata and a new tzdata-java. -----Original Message----- Should this be a topic for SHARE ? A Share presentation discussing time/date manipulation STCK, STCKE, CONVTOD, etc. ? The conspicuous lack in STCKCONV and CONVTOD (and Rexx) is support for timezones. -- gil
