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>Can anyone shed information on the status
>of these INTEREX system improvement ballot items:
>

The following responses were made at the SIC (System Improvement Committee)
meeting held during INTEREX at San Francisco.

>93M01 - Option to have system clock set to real time after powerfail.
>

It was announced that this feature has existed in the operating system
since 4.0 [I think], but that users had no way to enable it because a
user interface had not yet been created.  Also, the lab didn't think that
a SYSGEN interface would be ready by 5.0, either.  However, if you really
need this feature, a patch is available.  I believe they said you could
contact the response center for more information.  [If I can come up with
an individual contact, I will post it later.]

>93M02 - Ability to change system date & time while system is up.
>

It was announced that a :SETCLOCK command would be available in MPE/iX
starting with release 5.0.  The details were provided at the SIC meeting,
at SIGSYSMAN, and at the MPE Technical Roundtable.  My memory being what
it is, I don't remember many of the specifics.  It can be used to set time
both forward and backward.  Time adjusts gradually.  The less activity on
the system, the faster it adjusts.  The adjustment will take no more than
twice as long as the time interval change in the clock.  Also, SM users
have the ability to request a ";NOW" option.  This is at the system
manager's own risk.  :SETCLOCK requires either both OP and DI capabilities or
both SM and DI capabilities.  [So, I remembered more than I thought.]

Mike P.
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