> Which implies to me that it offsets GMT as well as local time, likely 
> something the OP, who ever he is, does not desire.

The OP thinks he would be good either way, but that local time is what he 
really needs changed.

Charles

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Subject: Re: Possible to run a jobstep with a different timezone?

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:06:17 -0700, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> 
wrote:
>
>The process intercepts teh STCK instruction.  Not sure if that is something 
>you want to do.
>
Which implies to me that it offsets GMT as well as local time, likely something 
the OP, who ever he is, does not desire.

Useful, however, for Y2K and license key expiration testing.

How does one "intercept" STCK?  It's not a privileged instruction and causes no 
interrupt.


>>Have not yet looked but I wonder where in z/OS the offset is stored. I 
>>suspect it is in a system-wide data area, not region-specific, unfortunately.
>> 
>From fading memory, CVTLSO and CVTLDTO.

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