On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:48:08 +0900, Timothy Sipples <e99...@jp.ibm.com> wrote:
>It depends on what the original poster wants. If he wants time consistency >across systems -- to the degree NTP can provide consistency anyway -- then >System z as master NTP server, even without STP, will accomplish that. (And >a lot of organizations run that way.) I am a bit surprised I believe there is a confusion between NTP and SNTP When I implemented time consistency across systems years ago , z/OS was providing a NTP daemon but it was next to impossible to find NTP clients for Unix or Windows . So the NTP server was useless . Luckily Ken Clapp had written a SNTP server for z/OS and it was easy to use SNTP client ( you could even find freeware for Windows client ) ( i used a Dynamic VIPA for it) Then later on, z/OS TCP/IP provided a SNTP daemon, and we replaced Ken Clapp code with the official IBM SNTP daemon. ( z/OS 1.2 perhaps i am not sure) It was thanks to Ken that we could do it long before. Bruno Sugliani zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr http://zxnetconsult.free.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
