IBM is posting support alerts concerning the 2007 changes to U.S. Daylight Savings Time. Next year DST will span four more weeks. Please make sure your systems, middleware, and applications are ready for this adjustment. You may also wish to document your efforts and to make strategic changes so that if the DST period changes again in the future you will be prepared.
This DST change could also impact global customers who do business with the United States. If you are outside the U.S., please consider this possibility. You should monitor this Web site regularly to get the latest information: http://www.ibm.com/support/alerts/us For those of you using IBM Application Time Facility for z/OS (formerly Isogon TicToc) to test applications for DST issues, please be sure to monitor that product's support alerts for current information and advice. Vendors, including IBM, have improved their mainframe code quality and testing tools lately. I would advise weighing the value of tools against staff expenses (including "opportunity costs," the concept that staff spending time on one issue lose time that might be better spent on other issues, such as improving business capabilities), risk mitigation, and meeting DST transition deadlines. Some of the relevant IBM examples include WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer, Asset Transformation Workbench, and the aforementioned Application Time Facility -- and there are other vendor tools out there. I'd also recommend dusting off memories (and documentation) from your Y2K remediation projects to understand your own correct procedures and testing regimens. You should also be aware that DST preparation may involve getting to reasonably current operating system and middleware versions, so please keep close tabs on any such requirements and allow time for version upgrades. I know many of you are already well underway in dealing with this DST change. For those that aren't, please take action now to get ready. It's getting close. You can send any love letters to the lame duck U.S. Congress. :-) - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
