Hi, I just received an email from someone at IBM Global Services asking me if IPLINFO would require any changes / updates to support the DST changes in 2007. I've heard of a lot of companies writing all their vendors to ask the same question (I guess that is a good thing - wonder if someone here is doing that).
Does anyone know of any z/OS software that will require changes? I can't think of anything that does. In fact, I know shops that have changed over in the past on Friday evening for example instead of Sunday morning. All the software that runs on z/OS gets its time information from z/OS, right? The only "z/OS" fix I can think of would be for z/OS Unix to support changes to the TZ environment variable. It already supports a way to specify when DST starts and ends but the default it is based on the (current) American rules (first Sunday in April / last Sunday in October). I assume there is or will be a APAR to change the default behavior. I wonder if the fix will go back beyond currently supported versions of z/OS? Y2K fixes went back beyond the current supported releases at the time. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.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
