Here's a pretty good IBM techdoc on the subject:

https://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP102081

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 21:41:48 +0530, zos reader wrote:
> >
> >We are running zOS1.13 on z114 box. As we aware Leap Second is to happen
> on
> >30th June. Will there be any impact, if yes do we require any changes to
> be
> >done prior to this.
> >Please guide me
> >
> See OA05136 (Mine!)
>
> Probably no impact given that z/OS makes user processes nondispatchable
> during
> the leap second.  (Well, 1/3600 the impact of shutting dowh for an hour
> every Fall.)
>
> The duration of a process spanning the Leap Second shown by the difference
> between two STCK values will appear.
>
> We enabled Leap Seconds many years ago, then disabled them shortly after
> because vendor products were inconsistent in their treatment of CVTLSO
> (Our systems programmer names SMF and RMF.)  But you're already enduring
> that; it will get only 4% worse.
>
> And IBM refuses to document STCKCONV's treatment of CVTLSO.
>
> -- gil
>
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