Thanks Mark. This is what I was looking for. 

I found this in an IBM presentation:

NTP server becomes the single time source (External Time Source (ETS)) for STP, 
as well as other non-System z servers (UNIX®, Windows NT®, other) that have NTP 
clients

Off to read up on the IP SNTP server

Dean

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>> On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 10/16/14 09:34, Dno wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am doing reading on STP, based on a request to see if the z10 could be 
>> used as a time source for distributed servers. I thought at one time (not 
>> sure), there was an address space that could run on the mainframe for this 
>> purpose. I do not remember if it was an IBM tool, or free software. Can 
>> someone jump start, while I review the white papers and presentations I have 
>> found. Can this be done?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dean
>> 
>> Dean Montevago
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> 
> TCP/IP has an NTP server that your distributed servers can connect to as 
> their time source.
> 
> EZZ9602I SNTP SERVER INITIALIZING
> EZZ9600I SNTP SERVER READY
> 
> //SNTPD EXEC PGM=SNTPD,REGION=4096K,TIME=NOLIMIT,
> // PARM='POSIX(ON),ALL31(ON),TRAP(OFF)/ -d'
> 
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