Charles Mills wrote: >Yes, the first 18 bytes are consistent. I know of no inconsistencies there for >IBM or non-IBM products.
Neither me, unless I missed something. >But beyond that point there is no consistent standardization of time (or >other) even within IBM products (Types 0 - 127). Thus we have, within the beyond-18 data for IBM products >SMF14RST - tttttttt 0cyydddF Local >SMF42PTS - STCK >SMF119TN_NITime - tttttttt 0cyydddF UTC >etc. And also for SMF70IST (0hhmmssF) and the queer format of SMF70INT (mmsstttF) or this fun one SMF70CYC (000ttttF)! And remember that SMF42LTM (4 bytes) which is 'Time since midnight, in seconds.', mind you. ;-) Granted, usage type of each of those fields are different, but if you're not careful, you sit with wrong values especially at UNPK statement. >I could go on and on for non-time fields but this thread is about time fields. Yes, AFAIK there are more sitting and waiting to ambush all of us. :-) *You should take your time to check up those time bits and pieces.* ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
