Bob, Were you successfully able to translate the NTP time on CMS into either a TOD value, or to a human-readable yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss format?
Thanks! Mike Walter Aon Corporation The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Cronin Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:09 To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Retrieving the date/time from an ntp server As it turns out it appears the failures I was seeing were due to the fact that I was pointing at one particular ntp server rather than a pool. So neverrrrrmind ... ;-) -- bc On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Mike Walter <mike.wal...@aon.com> wrote: > I have some sample code from Dave Jones that I was working on in the > fall of 2013, but never came up with an incantation that quite works > right. The time reported is off by about 18,000 seconds (5 minutes) > while the z800 is off by about 79 seconds from the z/OS systems using > the same NTP server as their trusted time source. The code still has > that bug, issues diagnostic messages, and is in need of improved commenting > and doc. > > My goal was to compare the TOD from NTP to the TOD on a z/VM 5.4.0 > system running on a z800 w/o any access to a trusted time source > except the NTP server. The idea was to track gradual drift of the > z800 TOD from the NTP, and when it grew "significant enough", send an > automated e-mail to us z/VM sysprogs to schedule a z800 hardware TOD change. > > If no one else has a working solution, I can send it to you to finish. > Let me know if you're up to the challenge! :-) > > Mike Walter > Aon Corporation > The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. > > -----Original Message----- > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List > [mailto:CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU] > On Behalf Of Bob Cronin > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 08:41 > To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Retrieving the date/time from an ntp server > > Does anyone have any pipes code that can do this? > -- > bc > >
