On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 05:31:59 -0700, arun kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Listers > >In my shop, on a z990 box, we have parallel sysplex >with catalog sharing and our systems are on z/OS 1.6. > >Java application guys here wants to test his >application in different time zone, time and date from >USS. > >He could managed to get away with timezone by using >the TZ environment variable. Changing time & date >appears to be beyond CLOCKxx and TZ environment >variable. > >Can you please tell me whether such a change possibled >time?, as I believe that each z/OS system picksup date >and time from TOD clock or something like that from >the mainframe. > >Can date & time be changed without affecting the other >systems in the sysplex? > >Is the data & time change is a straight forward one? > >TIA....Arun > There are various software products that can do this for "MVS" jobs, but I don't know if they work for the z/OS Unix environment. We still have one LPAR with such a product (HourGlass) and I just tried adding the DD cards to change the date/time and ran a rexx program via BPXBATCH and it did nothing. (that doesn't mean there isn't a way with this product). Cheers, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
