Still trying to get this to work properly. The problem with TZ_ALIAS is that it doesn't work on the right part of the problem. Sure you can change the TZ but WAS has already inserted the wrong timestamp into the event log (14 hours off) so it doesn't help. What is needed to is to rewrite the timestamp in the event (EST) using the offset to the correct timestamp (system time, in this case AEST) so that they agree.
Anyone got a recipe for this? Don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Alternatively I'm thinking I might be able to simply discard the time in the event, or perhaps extract it as a field and then replace it with _indextime to hide the wrong values. Ugly, and should not be necessary.
Or IBM could make system time and not Armonk time the default in WAS. Yeah, and I will keep a lookout for articles about porcine aviation in the newspapers 🙂
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