This Natural profile parameter specifies a time differential to be applied to the Natural time/date setting to ensure that the current local time/date is used, rather than the computer center time/date.This parameter is applicable in an environment in which remote nodes are being used in a computer network.
| Possible settings | AUTO |
Natural compares the physical (store clock) and logical (system
environment) machine times and uses the difference between the two as the
setting for the TD parameter. For a time change to take
effect for Natural (for example, to change time to summer time or back to
winter time), it is therefore sufficient to reset the logical machine
time.
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Hours, minutes and seconds from The specified time is added to or subtracted from the physical machine time to set the time/date to be used by Natural. |
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| 1 to 32 characters | Name of the time zone to be used. This must be defined as a
valid time zone in the
NTTZ
macro of the NATCONFG module, see
Configuration
Tables - Module NATCONFG.
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| Default setting | 0 |
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| Dynamic specification | yes | |
| Specification within session | no | |
| Application Programming Interface | USR1005N |
See SYSEXT - Natural Application Programming Interfaces in the Utilities documentation. |
TD=6 (6 hours ahead) TD=(5,30) (5 hours and 30 minutes ahead) TD=(-6,12,30) (6 hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds behind) TD='USA-EST' (eastern time zone as defined in NTTZ macro)
z/VSE-Specific Information: With VSE-type
operating systems, // ZONE and //DATE JCL statements
are honored with TD=AUTO. This can also affect the setting of the
profile parameter DD. See also the profile parameters
YD and
DD.
