> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Another "why did they do it this way?" question > - SMF time stamps > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > on 08/10/2007 > at 03:10 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Does anybody know why the people who designed SMF decided to encode > >the date and time as FL4'hundredths of seconds after midnight' plus > >PL4'0cyyddd'? Why not just put in the STCK value? > > Because there was no STCK at the time. OS/360 used the Interval timer > on S/360; by the time S/370 came along it was too late to change. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Thanks. That is the consensus, so is likely correct. I wasn't around in the pre-S/370 era. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
