On 16 Mar 2006 15:34:50 -0800,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Whitteridge) wrote:
>Run the NTP server on the parallel sysplex and have the other platforms
>use it as the time source.
That's certainly a viable solution, but...
In some environments, running the NTP server on the mainframe will do a
very good job of keeping all your other systems consistent...consistently
wrong. I can't speak to STP, since I know very little about this new
feature. But traditionally, synchronizing a mainframe environment to an
external time source such as NIST or GPS requires an ETR[1]. I don't know
what the current price of that device runs, but I've seen figures as high
as $35K bandied about in this list for what is essentially a glorified PC.
What's your response to the CIO after you've requested an ETR and he/she
replies along the lines of: "You want me to spend $xxx for something that
every other system in my shop can do for free???!!!"
Eric
[1] IIRC, the Sysplex Timer does *not*, by itself, synch to an external
time source. It merely keeps the TOD clock in all systems in the plex
synchronized.
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