Scheduling jobs during Daylight Savings in ESP Workload Automation.
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Scheduling jobs during Daylight Savings in ESP Workload Automation.

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Article ID: 12404

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Products

ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Timezone considerations for Time change.

Every year we rely on changing jobs, either adding or taking away an hour because of daylight savings .

Is it possible to automate this so that we will no longer have to change the jobs 2x a year?

Environment

All Releases: ESP Workload Automation 

Resolution

 

PTF RO89426 introduced the following enhancement:


ENHANCEMENT DESCRIPTION:
Automatic adjustment of the time zone shift to the daylight saving
time shift.
The enhacement introduces three new operands to the TIMEZONE configuration
parameter:
DSTON specifying when the DST time shift begins
DSTOFF specifying when the DST time shift ends
DSTSHIFT specifying the shift value

Additional Information

See more on the online doc:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/automation/ca-workload-automation-esp-edition/12-0/reference/initialization-parameters/timezone-define-a-time-zone.html