Re: Resetting date

["Bruce Shearer" <brucels@xxxxxxx>]

> This morning, IBM came in to do an engineering change on our 50S.  As
> people signed on, those with expiration intervals other than *NOMAX had
> to change their passwords.  Luckily, one of them asked me why.  I
> discovered that the system date was 08/23/28.  Very fortunately, this
> was on our development machine. I immediately changed the date on the
> system.

There are several issues with service actions that relate to the control
panel (where the date and time are stored).  If your control panel was
disconnected during the upgrade process several things can happen ie.
advancing to 1/1 of the next year (a problem fixed with ptfs in version 2),
and resetting back to "0" (8/23/28).  If your CE follows the repair
instructions properly, he/she will see a note in the Repair Guide's Control
Panel Installation procedure that says: "Note:  Set the system time and
date after completing this procedure."  The CE should have IPLed in Manual
to check the date and time. 

> Is there a PTF?  Have IBM Hardware CE's been made aware of this?

I don't know what IBM's CE are told about this, but we train our Customer
Service Engineers specifically on this issue. They must follow the
instructions in the book.


Bruce Shearer
DecisionOne
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