On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 03:18:35 -0500, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
>With regard to the 8-byte clock wrapping in 2042, >I believe that IBM has to resolve this issue >not later than 2011 or 2112, 2012, I presume >because tapes can >have a maximum retention period of 30 years. I don't understand that comment, Barry. The expiration date on a tape has the form cyyddd and seems, to me, unrelated to TOD clock format. Can you help me understand how they're related? -- Walt Farrell, CISSP IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
