In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 12/22/2008
at 09:54 AM, Arthur Gutowski <[email protected]> said:
>OK, so catching up on everyone else's posts, that means I need STP for:
>Sysplex beyond a single CEC
Yes.
>Clock Steering
Yes
>Acting as an NTP server to the chicken-ple
No.
>I was under the apparently mistaken impression that HMC/SE could step
>time to synch with the periodic dial-out, and subsequently z/OS could
>be stepped to synch with HMC/SE.
There is no non-disruptive synchronization of z/OS. For that you need
clock steering.
>On the other hand, I do NOT need STP for:
>Monoplex
>Dial-out to ETS
>Getting time from an NTP server
You don't need it to get the time, but you do need it to adjust the TOD
clock in real time.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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