You might be able to set your VTOD to UTC, depending on whether Pipelines uses 
the VTOD. I would not bet on it. The other possibility is to run your system on 
UTC rather than local time. At one time, during the great Y2K panic, I made the 
modifications to allow the diags to honor the VTOD. If you do that, you still 
have problems with programs that do their own STCK. It is not a privileged 
instruction, so it does not get intercepted by CP (and I presume it also does 
not get intercepted by SIE).

Our solution - all systems run on UTC with an offset of 0. It makes it easier 
to correlate logs from systems scattered around the world.

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Cronin
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:57 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: UTC timestamp?
> 
> Is there a way to coax the TimeStamp stage to render the 
> timestamps it produces in UTC? At present I am doing 
> local-to-UTC conversion using some laborious Rexx code and 
> found myself wishing for something more efficient ...
> --
> bc
> 

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