Re: Single Partition Supporting multiple time zones

No and Maybe. :-)

If you were coding a solution I could see using the subsystem as part of the solution but there is nothing there.

One thing to consider is how you set the time on your system in general if you were to do something like this. Back when we did our solution we didn't care enough but you might want to set your system to zero offset. THat is all times in all application files, system logs, etc are all based on zulu time. This is and always has been a common reference point.

Reports, displays, etc would show based on the users or the user's location offset.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/9/2017 6:03 PM, Mohammad Tanveer wrote:

Isn't there anything at SBS level? don't you think it will be just a
simple thing for IBM to handle at subsystem level

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:39 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

More than 25 years ago we did this by user profile. We updated our
application so that wherever a date or time was displayed we retrieved it
through a called program based on an attribute in the user profile. We were
only dealing with Eastern and Central U.S. times but back then Indiana did
not do DST so it was annoying to them to see the wrong time half the year.

It worked for us but required application changes.

There is not a native method within IBM i that I am aware of.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/9/2017 5:11 PM, Mohammad Tanveer wrote:

Is it possible to have one iSeries partition serving multiple
timezones/countries?

Right now we have 3 partitions one running for Europe , One for ASIA and
one for USA. There is no need to run it like that the only issue is the
timezone. Effort is to have one consolidated partition.

1. user login from (Country) they should see that their timezone If they
update some data it should be updated using their timezone.
2. All jobs scheduled should run based on country specific timezone.


Regards

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