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Universal Audit Time

This feature uses a GMT/UTC timestamp for the audit fields in the TMC and Audit. The feature allows accurate auditing of LPARs running in multiple time zones. All other times continue to be recorded as local times and match values from the job log. All audit times are GMT/UTC. The entries in the audit file can be analyzed relative to the other LPARS. This feature also increases the precision of the times stored in the audit fields of the TMC and audit data set from HHMM to HHMMSSth.

This feature is active when the audit file is formatted in BLOCKSET mode. The BLOCKSET mode relies on the higher precision of the universal audit time for its high performance audit updates.