Steps for starting SNTPD as a procedure

You can start SNTPD as an MVS™ started procedure.

Before you begin

Obtain a copy of this sample procedure from SEZAINST and store it in one of your PROCLIB concatenation data sets.

Procedure

Perform the following step to start SNTPD as a procedure:

Invoke the procedure using the system operator start command. The following sample, SEZAINST(SNTPD), shows how to start SNTPD as a procedure:

//SNTPD    PROC
//*
//* Sample procedure for the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
//*
//* z/OS Communications Server Version 1 Release 13
//* SMP/E Distribution Name: SEZAINST(EZASNPRO)
//*
//* Copyright:    Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
//*               5694-A01
//*               Copyright IBM Corp. 2002, 2011
//*
//* Status:       CSV1R13
//*
//SNTPD    EXEC PGM=SNTPD,REGION=4096K,TIME=NOLIMIT,
//         PARM='-d'
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=132,BLKSIZE=132)
//SYSIN    DD DUMMY
//SYSERR   DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=132,BLKSIZE=132)
//CEEDUMP  DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=*
//*

Results

You know that SNTPD has started when the following message appears on the console:

EZZ9600I SNTP SERVER READY.