Re: Setting clocks on multiple AS400s

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:09 PM 8/26/97 -0500, you wrote:

>>I need some help with setting all our AS400s to the same time.
>Network/communication delays won't let us use one of them as >the master.
>We have machines as widespread as  from Florida to Utah, Texas to
>Minnesota.
>
>This is probably not what you want/need but I will throw it out as a
>suggestion.  At the NEWS/400 site they have a freeware
>package that will synch your system with the National Bureau of Standards.
>  One might possibly get good synchronization if
>all machines synched with the NBS.
>
>The URL is http://www.news400.com/400shareware/.  The product is described
>as follows:
>
>Description - This program sets the AS/400 system clock using an async comm
> line/modem by calling the
>      National Bureau of standards. It is not precise but should be within
>+/- 1-2 seconds. Author: Joe Hubele.
>      File Name - http://www.news400.com/sharewarefiles/settime.zip
>      Licensing - Freeware
>      System Type - AS/400
>
>Unsophisticated but it could work.

Thanks, that sounds like just the ticket. IBM doen't have anything, but
they pointed me at a hardware solution--a kind of receiver attached to a
serial port that must receive from NSB or someother reference. But that
sounds too expensive, and who's got serial ports on their AS/400, anyway?

Again, thanks for the suggestion.

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480
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