the simple DST correction

although i may be out of date .. the code looks good .. but don't make the 
mistake of submitting it under anything less than 'SECOFR' .. did that once .. 

spring -forward- is generally not a problem .. railroad trains are just another 
hour behind schedule .. its fall that is a problem as time "repeats" .. in the 
AmTrak case they park their 'intercontinal trains' on a siding and wait out the 
--hour-- repetition

all experience i have is that i/OS handles 'clock' resets with aplomb -- in 
particular regarding the base Scheduler of batch ..

if you are running 'foreign' operating systems,  or depend on some 'desktop' 
i-series product ... i have no suggestions


message: 4
date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:56:27 -0800
from: Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: DST disable timzon feature

I am working on a V5R3 system that is not current on required cumPTF's 
so we can't use the TIMZON features of the OS.

Therefore we will do it via a piece of CL (below) which is schedule to 
run at 2am on Sunday.

Meanwhile, I need to be sure that the TIMZON feature is turned off.

Anyone know how to do that?

Jerry

... frag ...



              RTVSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QTIME) RTNVAR(&SYSTIM)
              RTVSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QUTCOFFSET) RTNVAR(&UTCOFF)

/*  Parse out hour from system value QTIME

              CHGVAR     VAR(&HOURD) VALUE(%SST(&SYSTIM 1 2))
              CHGVAR     VAR(&UTCHR) VALUE(%SST(&UTCOFF 2 2))

/*  If Spring then add one hour to time
/*  If Spring then sub one hour from utcoffset

              IF COND(&SEASON *EQ 'SPRING') THEN(DO)

                CHGVAR     VAR(&HOURD) VALUE(&HOURD + 1)
                CHGVAR     VAR(&UTCHR) VALUE(&UTCHR - 1)

/*  Adjust system value QTIME if valid time

                  CHGVAR     VAR(%SST(&SYSTIM 1 2)) VALUE(&HOURD)
                  CHGSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QTIME) VALUE(&SYSTIM)

                  CHGVAR     VAR(%SST(&UTCOFF 2 2)) VALUE(&UTCHR)
                  CHGSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QUTCOFFSET) VALUE(&UTCOFF)

... end frag ...