RE: Hour -- MIDRANGE-L

Whilst were bashing IBM on what they have failed to provide under the covers 
of OS/400 I have a couple of items:

I think IBM have been negligent in failing to provide proper TCP/IP services 
in OS/400. I was tasked to set up an AS/400 that would keep the correct 
time. Nowhere on IBM's web site was there any reference to implementing NTP 
(network time protocol) I posted a message to this list requesting 
information, and would you belive it, IBM pops up and says in the guise of 
Opportunity Manager -- IBM Rochester Custom Technology Center and offered 
the following:-

The SNTP client software, Enterprise-wide license for the code is $500

The SNTP server code, Enterprise-wide license for the server code is $2100.

Also the code provided is "as is" Type II material.
come on IBM you can do better than this!

You could go to any market and buy a $1 digital watch that would keep better 
time than the timepiece in the AS/400. A business system like the AS/400 
deserves better.

I did eventually find MSNTP400 from export-ventures.com for $100 and it 
works very well.

I could go on but I'm sure all you people are busy writing or implementing 
3rd party software that should be in the OS

Regards Michael Oakes

>From: "Shaw, David" <dshaw@spartan.com>
>Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Subject: RE: Hour
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:35:15 -0500
>
>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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