On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:31:03 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anybody on the "other" side tried to use this as an argument that >z/OS is so poorly designed that it cannot stand changing the clock >without an outage? Around here, any glitch, however minor, is taken up >by the Windows zealots as yet another reason that we should totally >eliminate the zSeries. And they are winning the war. No, I haven't heard that one yet. The "replace the mainframe" arguments around here are usually about perceived cost, esp software. Folks here are generally impressed with the uptime and availability of our mainframe and it's applications. We won't really keep the OS down for the hour. Just the subsystems and the entry points. I have had the Windows crowd give me funny looks when I tell them I have to POR my box to change the GMT clock. Damm thing drifts a few seconds a month and there are financial reasons why it can't be more than 10 seconds off from popcorn (For those of you outside the US, popcorn is the telephone number you dial to get the "official time"). -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
