I was not arguing against a built-in timing solution, merely pointing out that even a single-CEC shop can derive benefit from STP. OTOH the underlying cost of a free lunch surely gets baked in somewhere. Maybe a coin-operated restroom stall...
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 09/12/2013 10:02 AM Subject: Re: NTP server with System z for PCI-DSS compliance Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> In <of919a62a3.59be1d57-on88257be4.00500ef8-88257be4.00510...@sce.com>, on 09/12/2013 at 07:44 AM, Skip Robinson <[email protected]> said: >While the most obvious value of STP may be synchronization of >multiple z CECs in a glass house, it is invaluable for synchronizing >all z CECs with the rest of the enterprise. Were IBM to provide an NTP client for single CEC shops, why would it not fulfill the need to synchronize with the rest of the enterprise? Or are you talking about multiple z sites in the same enterprise? Even there STP seems like overkill unless at least one site is multi-CEC. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
