RTC Server Timezone in WAS
Our WAS servers hosting RTC are located in Chicago but the customer wants the default timezone for RTC to be Eastern time.
We followed these instructions on how to set a variable "TZ" in WAS at the server level to "EST5EDT" and restarted, however, RTC does not seem to obey it It still creates new RTC users with a default timezone of "Chicago" timezone.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.express.iseries.doc/info/iseriesexp/ae/rrun_svr_timezones.html?resultof=%22%74%69%6d%65%7a%6f%6e%65%22%20%22%74%69%6d%65%7a%6f%6e%22%20
Is there a way to force RTC to ignore the operating system timezone and use the application container timezone? Or, did I not follow the WAS instructions properly?
We followed these instructions on how to set a variable "TZ" in WAS at the server level to "EST5EDT" and restarted, however, RTC does not seem to obey it It still creates new RTC users with a default timezone of "Chicago" timezone.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.express.iseries.doc/info/iseriesexp/ae/rrun_svr_timezones.html?resultof=%22%74%69%6d%65%7a%6f%6e%65%22%20%22%74%69%6d%65%7a%6f%6e%22%20
Is there a way to force RTC to ignore the operating system timezone and use the application container timezone? Or, did I not follow the WAS instructions properly?
One answer
The way to do it is this in WAS:
Servers -> WebSphere Application Servers -> server1 -> Java and Process Management -> Process Definition ->Java Virtual Machine
Then, in the Generic JVM arguments, type:
-Duser.timezone=EST5EDT
Restart WAS, and now all *new* users will be set to EST. However, all previously imported users (all of them) will still have the old default timezone. You'll need to fix those users manually by going into each on in ccm/admin in the user editor and changing their work environment.
Servers -> WebSphere Application Servers -> server1 -> Java and Process Management -> Process Definition ->Java Virtual Machine
Then, in the Generic JVM arguments, type:
-Duser.timezone=EST5EDT
Restart WAS, and now all *new* users will be set to EST. However, all previously imported users (all of them) will still have the old default timezone. You'll need to fix those users manually by going into each on in ccm/admin in the user editor and changing their work environment.