Christopher Brown wrote:

>A curious situation from Saturday night. At an acquaintances site, they 
>usually do a POR (no idea why and I'm afraid to ask) for the time change.  

POR for a time change?


>They also like to sit for an hour as they believe the DB2 logs will be 
>corrupted (not a DB2 user but I have my doubts about that). 

No ways, AFAIK, unless something inside DB2 is messing it up.


>But due to a medical issue he never did call back or IPL the machine. So 
>through a chain of events, the acquaintance (a mainframer but not a sysprog) 
>called me for help. 

You're supposed to always have a right hand to help you out in such emergencies.


>But they are now in a state I've never seen before.  Local time is good, but 
>GMT/UTC is daylight savings time.  The only thing I can come up with is that 
>they set local and GMT equal. And there is no prompt or timezone parameter in 
>the CLOCKxx parmlib member.  

Please post the CLOCKxx member.


>As an STP user (the greatest thing since sliced bread) its been years since 
>I've had to manually do anything with changing clocks, but as I recall we 
>never did anything other than a SET CLOCK command.  

At what Stratum level is your STP? Are you west or east of Greenwich?


>So if they IPL, what will the local time be?  Is there a reason to change the 
>time on the HMC?  And the only time I've ever seen GMT set is at the TOD 
>prompt at IPL, true?

Do you see IEA886A?

... and they reply with R 00,DATE=?,TIME=?,GMT  instead of UTC?

As John asked, what is your TIMEZONE?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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