MFASTC does not display the correct time

Products

• Advanced Authentication Mainframe

Issue/Introduction

Encountering an issue where MFASTC doesn't display the correct time when running tests with Java 8 on z/OS 2.5. However, this problem doesn't occur when using Java 17 on z/OS 3.1. 

Environment

z/os Java

Cause

invalid parm format

Resolution

Add a time zone parm  in MFAPARMS
# Configure JVM options                              
IJO="-Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Xms512m -Xmx1024m"        
IJO="$IJO -Duser.timezone=xxxx/yyyy"            
export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS="$IJO "    
where xxxx yyyy is the time zone required