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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
