UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
running z/OS V1.9 with JAVA in Unix I would like to know if there is a way to establish the JAVA in UNIX to always get the system date and time. I would like to reduce the need to update the TZ parameter each time the time jumps. I do have an /etc/profile which is fairly basic. As shipped by

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
Lizette Koehler wrote: running z/OS V1.9 with JAVA in Unix I would like to know if there is a way to establish the JAVA in UNIX to always get the system date and time. I would like to reduce the need to update the TZ parameter each time the time jumps. I do have an /etc/profile which is fair

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
No - it is getting GMT. We are EST. Lizette -Original Message- >From: Rich Smrcina >Sent: Dec 29, 2008 9:34 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS > >Lizette Koehler wrote: >> running z/OS V1.9 with JAVA in Unix >> >&

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Jakubek, Jan
<<< I would like to know if there is a way to establish the JAVA in UNIX to always get the system date and time. I would like to reduce the need to update the TZ parameter each time the time jumps.

Antwort: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Michael Klaeschen
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Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Gray, Larry - Larry A
38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS No - it is getting GMT. We are EST. Lizette NOTICE: All information in and attached to the e-mail(s) below may be proprietary, confidential, privileged and otherwise protected from improper or erroneous disclosure. I

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:29:19 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: >running z/OS V1.9 with JAVA in Unix > >I would like to know if there is a way to establish the JAVA in UNIX to always get the system date and time. I would like to reduce the need to update the TZ parameter each time the time jumps. > >

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:37:53 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: >No - it is getting GMT. We are EST. > Simple an in adequate answer: Set TZ=EST5EDT (in several places.) Better answer that IBM doesn't support: There should be a single point of maintenance, either in PARMLIB or in STP that controls t

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Chauhan, Jasbir
Regards, Jasbir Chauhan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 9:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: UNIX and System time in z/OS running z/OS V1.9 with JAVA in Unix I

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
As always - more than one way to skin a cat. All excellent answers and now I must dig deeper and deeper into UNIX and the /etc folder. I knew about the /etc/profile. I did not know about the /etc/init.options. So many places so little time. And yes, it would be nice if IBM set it up with a

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
>I will work on all of these answers and see which one works for me. Some thoughts to consider: - Whatever is set in /etc/init.options is only relevant to any process started from /etc/rc (and some of these may even neglect those values, e.g. inetd does not propagate them to clinets logging