I have the following in member CEEPRM00 in PARMLIB:
/* NONCICS LE PARMS */
CEEDOPT(
ALL31(OFF),
STACK(,,BELOW)
CBLQDA(OFF),
COUNTRY(US),
DEBUG,
DYNDUMP(*USERID,DYNAMIC,NOTDUMP),
ENVAR('TZ=CST6CDT'),
LIBSTACK(8K,4K,FREE),
STORAGE(NONE,NONE,NONE,8K)
)
/* CICS LE PARMS */
CEECOPT(
ALL31(OFF),
STACK(,,BELOW),
STORAGE(00,NONE,NONE,0K)
)
/* 64 BIT GROUP */
CELQDOPT(
)
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> John, yours is the sort of answer I was looking for. I will await your
> "more
> tomorrow."
>
> I should have noted what other replies have pointed out: yes, I am familiar
> with the various ways of setting LE run-time options. Yes, the CEEOPTS DD
> statement route is waaaaay preferable IMHO to slashes in PARM=. Also, the
> program has its own ability to accept a parameter ZONE('string') and issue
>
> setenv("TZ", string, 1);
>
> So I do have several acceptable solutions to setting TZ.
>
> My question is what do I tell the customers that ask "how come you don't
> get
> the time right without us telling you what to do with a parm or DD? Our MVS
> programs know what the local time is. What's wrong with your program?" I
> want to be able to say "you need to set TZ in _________ as described in
> _____________."
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of John McKown
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Where environment variables set for batch POSIX programs?
>
> LE parameters in PARMLIB. TZ is a Language Environment variable as well as
> UNIX. UNIX will inherit it from LE if not set elsewhere.
>
> At home on tablet. Will reply more from work tomorrow, if nobody else does.
> On Sep 5, 2013 8:10 PM, "Charles Mills" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This question is related to my question on timezone_name.
> >
> > I am responsible for a C++ program that runs POSIX(ON) as a started
> > task in "conventional" MVS.
> >
> > I observe that at some customers the environment variable TZ (time
> > zone) is set correctly, and that at others it is not set at all.
> >
> > I search the USS documentation and all I find is information about
> > setting the environment variables if you are a shell user.
> >
> > For the customers that do not have TZ correctly set (for "MVS" started
> > tasks), what do I tell them to do? "You need to set the TZ environment
> > variable by customizing ____ as documented in _____"?
>
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