Hi Ken,

Does your configuration have/use STP on the z frame in conjunction with the HMC 
to keep the time in sync?

Rex

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Ken Smith
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 7:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SNTP client on z/OS

Here, our processor's HMC gets time from one of our routers, which gets
time from NIST (the HMC can go directly to NIST but I found firewalls were
troublesome).  The HMC then steers the processor's time.  zOS doesn't know
what's going on, I think, other than seasonal time changes. This has been a
very stable config for many years.

I've used plain language above instead of the jargon and complexity "Time
people" seem to love.  See Redbook: Server Time Protocol Implementation
Guide
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247281.html?Open

Ken Smith
State of Maryland

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:28:38 -0600, John McKown wrote:
> >
> >But you could use a custom NTP client to change the _local_ time by
> >adjusting the offset. The simplest way would be to just have your NTP
> >client code do a 'T CLOCK=' command. This doesn't change the TOD hardware
> >clock. It does not affect the TIME macro if you requiest "GMT" time. But
> it
> >will reset the local time. Oh, this is _not_ going to help if you problem
> >is that you are trying to get Kerberos or some other SSL process to work
> >because I'm fairly sure that they use the TOD hardware clock (STCK or
> STCKE
> >instruction).​
> >
> What about fudging CVTLSO which ought to get TIME GMT correct?  If
> Kerberos,
> etc. need to avoid UTC skew they must be CVTLSO-savvy even if they STCK.
>
> -- gil
>
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