"Ed Gould" <ps2...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1315436928.60134.yahoomailmob...@web161421.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>... > Interesting topic. > SMF timestamps are a little bit tricky as they are not when the record is written but when they are created. > So a record could be in storage and not written for as long as a week maybe more.
You mean by 'created' when it was given to SMF? You can control the time it can wait in SMF buffers with the MAXDORM(nnnn) parameter. Kees. We had one job that lasted a week. We had to change code to allow for this and it wasn't easy to change the code especially across months and years. We also wrestled with the DLS time issue a lot. > There is also a issue with DB2 with changing date which I have heard was really bad when the time is changed backwards. > > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html