Pat, It is simple. The mainframe CANNOT synchronise its time from any external source (except from a sysplex timer).
The mainframe CAN however be a source for time. So to resolve your situation everyone else needs to get their time from the mainframe (SNTPD) and not the firewall. If do that the problem will be resolved. Alan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miller, Pat Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? Okay, this is proving to be one of those "simple yet elusive" issues. All I want to do is synchronize the time between my mainframe and the servers it exchanges data with. The servers ALREADY synchronize amongst themselves by asking the firewall server what time it is. The firewall in turn, sets its time via some internet source. I'm happy to piggyback off this arrangement. I don't really care who decides what time it is, I just care that the data that comes from a server doesn't have a timestamp of 4:37pm when the mainframe thinks it's 4:33pm. Applications apparently have trouble processing data when it appears to come from the future, even if it's only a few minutes away. The server boys say, "Fine, just ask the firewall server at this IP address what time it is however often you need to in order to stay in sync." Which I would be happy to do if only SNTPD had some mechanism for me to direct it to a specific IP address address, which it apparently doesn't. This can't be that difficult, but at this point I'm cluless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
