> Is there a method to use Linux on 'Z' as an NTP Server so > that We can synchronize our w2k and unix servers to the 9037 > sysplex timers. For this purpose would there be a difference > between running in LPAR versus under VM due to differences in > time offsets etc.
Sure. Install the xntp server from your Linux distrubution and point your clients at it. That's all there is to it. You can't set the 390 clock this way (too bad -- that'd be a nice hack), but the 390 clock is pretty stable
