RE: Hour

If you say so . . . but when we pay so much for our AS/400s and the OS/400
license, it makes you a bit sick that a cheap old 486 with MS Win95, value
next-to-nothing, can do it.  This problem should not be insurmountable, even
for a system as complex as an enterprise system. I am of the opinion that a
solution is more vital on an enterprise machine.  As for 3rd-party
job-schedulers, if they don't cut the mustard, ditch them for one that does.
Software standards are the result of user-demand, if we demand ... suppliers
will provide.

Auto-changing clocks forward/back spring and autumn ought to be available in
OS/400, system value switchable perhaps, but there.  I'm no big fan of Bill
G or his Microsoft products, but it does seem that I'm working in the
computing dark-ages at times (i.e. in os/400).

Jeff B. I'm off home for a beer. good night.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, David [mailto:dshaw@spartan.com]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 3:35 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Hour


Jeff,

Of course, Bill Gates doesn't care if he blows up your third-party job
scheduler
or causes a critical job to run twice one night in the fall and not at all
one
night in the spring.  IBM ought to provide us a proper extendible facility
for
doing this, but we still need to be able to control it completely.  The
Windows
"binary switch" (on or off) approach to doing this just doesn't provide the
support that an enterprise system needs for this.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Hi Carlos,
>       I use a scheduled job; it's not quite automatic, but I 
> don't have to
> come to work in the early hours of a Sunday morning.  My PC 
> running WinNT4
> changed automatically, so did my old 486 under Win95 (without Y2K
> compliance) - Bill Gates got something right then.
> It's about time IBM joined the real world and gave us this facility in
> OS/400.
> 
> Jeff B.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Almeida [mailto:Carlos_Almeida@mail.quatrosi.pt]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 11:44 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Hour
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Does anyone knows the way the as/400 change the hour 
> automatically ( hour
> summer or winter )
> 
> thank's in advance
> Carlos Almeida
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