On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:51:44 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: >On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:31:25 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >>Big news for IBM-MAINers, I suspect, since this topic has been a hot one >>here recently.... >> >>Please note that System z can already act as an NTP server, with either >>z/OS (and its SNTPD feature, in z/OS 1.4 and above) or Linux on z. So you >>can quite easily configure a unified time source for your enterprise. >> >As can z/VM, running the TIMESRV daemon available for free download from the >IBM z/VM download page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ >
Let's see, buy z/VM and run z/OS as a guest or buy STP ???? They cost about the same. At least when we bought the timer, we got something physical to look at. Trying to dump the timer and move to native STP is almost $30K. For firmware. Shocking. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
