On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> @John, am I correct that if they are west of Greenwich (the Americas, > basically) they've got a real problem if the TOD clock is set to local time > and they want to "make it right"? Basically, they have to let the box sit > idle for five or more hours so that actual UTC time catches up to their > previous TOD clock setting, and DB2 does not step all over itself? > If you want to set the TOD "backwards" (west), then you need to idle the machine just as you said. IMO, this would be a very good opportunity to try to sell the client on setting the TOD to UTC/GMT and using the TIMEZONE parameter in the CLOCK member. > > If OTOH they are in the UK or east of Greenwich (EMEA, Asia) then things > are much simpler: just set the TOC clock correctly, set the timezone, and > go, correct? > Just as before. It all depends on exactly what you want to enter into the TOD clock on the HMC. If you need to set it "backwards", then you need to idle out for however long. If you can set it "forward", then you are golden. > > Charles > > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
