Re: SR

2012-06-07 Thread Barbara Nitz
, I won't. Get used to the new world of the clickers! As a mainframer, you're a dying breed. (As am I.) Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: How to delete the SYSZWLM_* structures

2012-05-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
datasets don't physically exist anymore. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How to delete the SYSZWLM_* structures

2012-05-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
You can turn IRD off effectively in IEAOPT00 by disabling its functions, Are you sure? The way I read it, you cannot. Turning VARYCPU off will not disable weight management which those structures are used for, IIRC. but that does not remove the structures, nor probably the overhead of WLM's

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
For the cases where z/OS is loading a disabled wait state, and one of these consoles is the SYNCHDEST console or the NIP console, this behavior is unfortunate (to say it politely. When it happens to me, I say it using more colorful language). But there isn't anything z/OS can do about this. We

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Barbara Nitz
, it just rubs salt into the wounds. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Barbara Nitz
at least twice when they weren't) - by the time the end of the year rolls around, SR will probably tell the rest of the world Gee, it worked so well for the last half year, why should we do anything? Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN

Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-16 Thread Barbara Nitz
Servicelink was required, SR was reachable using the normal servicelink login. I consider this an error and have opened a ticket. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-14 Thread Barbara Nitz
state code with a well-known and previously working setup just because design changes weren't thoroughly tested with real-world scenarios and lower limits. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-16 Thread Barbara Nitz
Vacation? Not likely. I just don't know all the answers off the top of my head, Impossible. :-) You're destroying the image I have of you! Prior to DSNTYPE=LARGE in z/OS 1.7, the only way to use an extent size larger than 64k tracks was to use an extended format data set, and extended

sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
My sadump program is coded with DDSPROMPT=NO (to enable sadump autoipl) and a dump data set name that is NOT SYS1.SADMP (since something needed to get done in SMS for dsntype=large, and sys1 is not sms-managed - don't ask me about particulars). When we migrated to 1.12, we were on old DASD

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
a z9 presumably to a z196, chances are very good that you would loose physical cps to keep money down. Try making your bosses understand that they cannot use the same number of logicals when the number of physicals decreases Barbara Nitz

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
As to whether a null reply in the reported case would have reverted SAD to the original values, I think we're all looking to Barbara to answer her own question. ;-) I love it when you guys do that to me! :-) Especially as I was too fast to remedy the situation by reallocating everything before I

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
is so heavily loaded that most of the time some system routine runs disabled for I/O, then no amount of cpenable tuning will change that. Just how did you arrive at the conclusion that elongated I/O times are the source of your problem? How did you measure them? Barbara Nitz

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-14 Thread Barbara Nitz
that we currently have (at z/OS 1.12) to see the apar text that SIS denied me and the ptf number. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Acceptable paging

2012-02-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
Maybe you can explain what MQ and broker issues you have and why you think this is related to paging and/or the page configuration. I agree with Kees. What exactly is your 'issue' with 'the broker'? (Assuming that MQS is just the innocent bystander here.) I know the broker uses a lot of virtual

Logical-to-Physical CP ratios, was: Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
of that overhead is given out to general lpar overhead. Or is it just that the high speed of the IFLs (compared to our slowed-down GCPs) causes this overhead? Thanks, Barbara NItz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-04 Thread Barbara Nitz
Charles, I believe you're referring to the ASM_LOCAL_SLOT_USAGE check. Yes, I do. If so, this check runs at a 30 minute interval and checks the slot usage for each in-use local paging data set regardless of whether it was defined 'statically' or added via PAGE ADD. So... it does eventually

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-03 Thread Barbara Nitz
Are you sure that this occurs at 50% Aux. storage utilization? IRA201E defines 'Critical storage shortage' at 85%. See cd command, parm AUXMGMT: SDUMP,AUXMGMT=ON or OFF Specifies when SDUMP data captures should stop. ON: No new dumps are allowed when auxiliary storage usage reaches 50%. New

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-02 Thread Barbara Nitz
If the reason field shows A CRITICAL AUXILIARY STORAGE SHORTAGE EXISTS, first you need to ensure that enough DASD resource is available for captured dumps to be written out. Then, consider adding additional auxiliary storage (paging) resources, because SVC dumps will not be allowed again until the

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-02 Thread Barbara Nitz
Wow. Very interesting. PFA was just complaining about super hog address space DA20DBM1. Here's what ILRSLOTC shows as the top piggy: VERSION 02/18/2010 ASID=0079 JOB=DA20DBM1 SLOTCOUNT=00029E21 VIO COUNT= I love it when a picture comes together. Yeah, and the DB admins will tell you

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-01 Thread Barbara Nitz
So if I have 5 3390-27 locals and they are all equally used at 50%, the algorithms (CPU usage, not I/O) are going to pick one of them, then do the page outs. That paging will find contiguous slots and should be efficient. BTW, this is just an example, we still try to keep our 3390-27 local usage

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-01-31 Thread Barbara Nitz
Writing to contiguous slots and over allocation is mentioned, but unless I missed it the old ROT (and health check) of not having more than 30% of the slots allocated is not specifically addressed. Certainly with 4K pages (for the most part) and 3390-27 (or bigger) that 30% ROT doesn't apply

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Barbara Nitz
To be precise: ASM reserves 2 exposures *per pagedataset* not per volume (i.e. 2n-1 Aliasses per volume), since/so you can allocate more than 1 pagedataset on one volume. We do so to fill 3390-9s and -27s with pagedatasets. I beg to disagree. :-) HiperPAV works on a per-IO-basis in the hardware,

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Barbara Nitz
For a page data set on a HiperPAV device, ASM creates two sets of channel program control blocks. If a single page read request come along while the first set is in use, ASM will use the second set to start another channel program to do the single page read. The purpose is to avoid having a

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
See APAR OA32453 (closed last year). It addresses the problem(s) associated with using HYPERPAV (and the WLMPAV option) for paging devices. If I read the apar right, this addresses the WLMPAV option in that it is no longer needed to be set. How many IOs does ASM start concurrently to the same

ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-26 Thread Barbara Nitz
What is the current wisdom on ASMs usage of HIPERPAV? Is ASM still only using two IOs per page data set or has that been fixed? The last definitive word I found about this was by Jim Mulder at the end of 2009 (not fixed). Thanks, Barbara

Re: STEPLIB problems - was: PDSE

2012-01-25 Thread Barbara Nitz
Our TSO users select the 'environment' they like to work in, i.e. DEVL/PROD, DB2ID etc. and during logon we allocate to the different ISP* ddnames the libraries required for that envrionment. At least 'dynamic' during logon, not during the life of the session. That only works if the ISPF

Re: PDSE

2012-01-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
and it would appear that Barbara may even have understated the dimensions of this problem. Me? Everybody tells me I always exaggerate. :-) But I can list more grievances for this topic Still, it is happening; and since forbidding the use of LINKLST to anyone is now an unenforceable

Re: PDSE

2012-01-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
It may perhaps be time to restate the obvious. LINKLST has come to be used in situations remote from its original narrow focus, which was to improve real and virtual program-fetch performance from certain system datasets. It does this well, but it was never intended that volatile program

Re: Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS

2012-01-16 Thread Barbara Nitz
MR1026112735 Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS I am told that this request, pointed out by Barbara Nitz, had been answered incorrectly and that the response has been corrected to recognized. True. Today I received an email saying: IBM agrees

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-12 Thread Barbara Nitz
Yes, sounds contradictory: IBM recommending a sysplex wide IPL, what was a sysplex intended for in the first place? I didn't read that *IBM* recommends a sysplex-wide IPL. *I* do to get rid of the junk that IBM accumulates in the sysplex CDS. I believe IBM frowns upon sysplex-wide IPLs. On the

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-11 Thread Barbara Nitz
Barbara - I've asked our account team to add us as concurring with the requirement and to be added to the Interested Parties list. The requirement has been rejected with this: User Group Number - MR1026112735 Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS IBM believes

Re: Logger dataset clarification

2012-01-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
it reports upon (using default values) had always been resolved by normal processing by the time someone got around to investigating (sometimes 3 min later). Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-09 Thread Barbara Nitz
Did you see idle BPXASs having the service class you assigned via WLM subsystem OMVS? I have only ever seen BPXASs having SRVCLASS=SYSSTC and WORKLOAD=SYSTEM (but I had never cared to explicitly classify BPXAS neither under OMVS nor under STC). I'd expect to find BPXOINIT having SRVCLASS=SYSTEM

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
You probably meant idle BPXAS here. Furthermore, any non-idle BPXAS, i.e. one that is currently hosting a forked process, also is of SMF type OMVS and still shows up as STCn. I wasn't sure about BPXAS. But no, I meant BPXOINIT. For the simple reason that there's some sort of type in the

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
I'm puzzled. There is only one BPXOINIT per system. BPXOINIT is started by STC OMVS during initialization and becomes PID=1 of the UNIX system. I would not consider this AS to be idle, since for me (in this context) the term idle relates to an initiator AS that is waiting for work. You know how

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
So, is it true that for SMFPRMxx SUBSYS(xxx,(... the only useful xxx are the five or six types listed above? I say useful rather than valid because I don't mean that SMF would necessarily generate an error for SUBSYS(FOO( -- it might, I just don't care at this moment -- but it would not be

Re: Was: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS - How does Subsys of SILO work?

2012-01-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
Just to add my speculations to this, too: For some reason they have excluded SMF records with that subsys. From the other posts, it is a user-defined SMF type number. The reason for exclusion is probably just that these types didn't exist when the TYPE statement was written in SMFPRM. Are

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-04 Thread Barbara Nitz
Charles, What I don't understand is the exact mapping of SUBSYS names to record-level functionality. If *I* understand you right, then you're confusing SUBSYS as indicated in SMFPRM and a subsystem defined to the SSI. The SMF SUBSYS types *I* am aware of are JESx, STC, TSO, OMVS, ASCH. That's

Fixing a sysplex definition problem for the first system in a sysplex - was: Re: CFRM Policy Number

2011-11-30 Thread Barbara Nitz
. I hope the above didn't completely confuse everybody! Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: S878 RC 10 Above or Below the Line? Private or LSQA?

2011-11-02 Thread Barbara Nitz
that tells exactly how to do it). Even if you have a generic abend878 action=nodump slip trap active, set another slip trap on 878 with an action other than nodump. It will override the generic slip trap. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-26 Thread Barbara Nitz
To finish this thread: There is now marketing requirement MR1026112735 that describes the need for a cleanup utility and asks for a way to really re-initialize the sysplex on the ixc405 message. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Customization MPFLSTxx

2011-10-26 Thread Barbara Nitz
Please provide the full syslog line from IEF403I and run the flag bits shown there against SYS1.MODGEN(IHAHCLOG). Look specifically at HCLREQFL. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
Bill and Mark, I am aware of the chicken-and-egg problem. It was explained to me back in the nineties when I first learned that CTCs were not required anymore to establish signalling because it was the first thing I asked about. IBM obviously does not get why I am saying that XCF lies to

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-20 Thread Barbara Nitz
How about expiring the data from slot not used for 30 days? An IPL after that would retrieve the needed info in a few seconds when it joins the sysplex? I like that idea. But as I said in my (private) note to Bill, since the design change from z/OS 1.9 isn't externally documented (that I know

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
Kees, Thanks, we will be adding systems to our sysplexes soon, which fit within our maxsystems, but now I have to recheck if they really fit next to the current systens and ancient rubbish. maybe you can test for me if one can find out via simple display commands what rubbish is kept in the

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
The only thing I can do for you is check D XCF,S,ALL when one of the systems has been brought down, but I suppose you have a testplex yourself? Yes, we do. I don't remember ever to have issued this command with the ALL parm when one of the systems was down, but it will be easy to do that once

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
I have two sysplexes with one or two members not currently running. None show up with D XCF,S,ALL . What I see is lots of detail about the one member that is running. Nothing about the others. Skip, thanks for testing that for me. Just as I figured - there isn't really an easy way to find out

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Barbara Nitz
need to get your Assembler program to execute in master or any other asid classified to SYSTEM. Again see what happens. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-11 Thread Barbara Nitz
to care about. In any case, we will never run into this again. Permanent part of our DR setup is now to always delete both the sysplex CDS and the CFRM CDS and redefine them freshly in order to avoid this unpredictability. Barbara Nitz

SaDump Statistics (was: AUTOIPL)

2011-10-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
As promised, here are the comparison statistics. It was an interesting excercise. I used a 1.12 system with 2 locals of 49500 tracks each, about 21% in use in the first dump, 14% in the second. 2GB central, 2 logical cps. Dump options in the first dump (essentially 'dump everything'): CSA

Re: IGVINITFREEMAIN

2011-10-07 Thread Barbara Nitz
This should be CAPTUCB PROTECT=YES|NO in IECIOSxx You're right, of course. Wonder why I thought it was a diag trap . Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-10-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
For restartable wait states which are not in the WSAT, no AutoIPL action is taken. For nonrestartable wait states which are not in the WSAT, the current AutoIPL action from DIAGxx is taken. 0A2-104 is nonrestartable. So your AutoIPL action will be taken. Ah. Then I misunderstood the WSAT.

IDIDMAP

2011-10-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
but not the other when the Fault Analyzer product is identical and active on both systems! Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM

Re: IDIDMAP

2011-10-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
What, and how, are you trying to search, Barbara? And what difficulty are you having? We are in the process of rolling out z/OS 1.12. One colleague had installed new maintenance and I wasn't happy that all necessary HOLDs were thouroughly checked. I asked our RACF guy to look at the RACF HOLD,

Re: IDIDMAP

2011-10-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
But sorry for the confusion, in any case. Walt, thanks for the explanation. I have forwarded it to my RACF colleague. In any case, I noticed later (after posting) that this is suspiciously like another USS discussion (no, please not again!). I apologize for that. Barbara

Re: IGVINITFREEMAIN

2011-10-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
I don't know what others do, but we run with the following set of TRAPs active on all of our development systems: Thanks for posting them - there aren't new ones, I see, since I last dabbled in dirty getmain. I may even get a chance in the not-too-distant future to revivie that project. I have

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-10-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
In the meantime, I recommend that you specify a device number which does not exist, or, if you are using all 65,536 device numbers, pick one which is unlikely to present an interrupt before you can click SEND on the HMC after you IPL SADMP. In our case unit=1f isn't defined, so the default is

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-10-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
When SADMP starts an IPL of MVS, it is essentially the same as if you did a Load Clear from the HMC. We don't know or care whether it is a new or old operating system. Good to know. But Mark has a good point, too: But then I realized that the next person who went to the HMC to IPL (that

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-10-03 Thread Barbara Nitz
I'm not sure why Barbara is so opposed to AUTOIPL in principle, but I can see where critical production might be problematic. *I* am not opposed to the function at all, just the opposite. My teamleader is. It took quite some strongarming for me to get him to agree to even test this, much less

Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-30 Thread Barbara Nitz
So, for your AUTOIPL SADMP(NONE) MVS(NONE) , the health check says that the policy is not active. I am just telling you what it does. I didn't do it. Don't shoot the messenger. I don't intend to. :-) Although, I was probably asked to review the design, and I probably didn't. I would

Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-30 Thread Barbara Nitz
F HCHECKER,REFRESH,CHECK=(IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED) CSV430I MODULE U11DHCXT FOR EXIT HZSADDCHECK HAS BEEN MADE INACTIVE DUE TO ABEND=29 REASON=02014007 SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=290 REASON CODE=02014007 PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 070C1001 9516A252 ILC 2 INTC 0D ACTIVE LOAD MODULE

Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
of the autoipl function is as bad. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives

Re: Dumps with no useful memory

2011-08-31 Thread Barbara Nitz
This application uses dependent ASIDs created with the ASCRE macro and entered with the PC instruction and my suspicion is that the abend is actually in one of these. Does anybody have an idea how I get z/OS to the dump the ASID which actually abended (if that is indeed the case)? There is an

Re: Dumps with no useful memory

2011-08-31 Thread Barbara Nitz
I assume by option 4 you mean the Dump Inventory (which is option 6 here). yes, I did. What MVS release are you running on?!? It has been ages since the dump inventory was option 6! The LD command showed that only ASIDs 1 and 154 were dumped. The cbf command showed that trace data was to be

Health CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_IMBED_REPLICATE)

2011-07-22 Thread Barbara Nitz
Guess what, folks, I am at it again :-) Our newly IPL'd 1.12 system has a lot of new 'stupid' health checks, but this one takes the crown: HZS1002E CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_IMBED_REPLICATE): AN ERROR OCCURRED, DIAG: 0064_0008

Re: Health CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_IMBED_REPLICATE)

2011-07-22 Thread Barbara Nitz
HC needs read access to all catalogs for this check. Any RACF messages in syslog? Yes Absolutely clear from rc64, rsn8, right? Thanks for pointing it out, that appears to be the problem. I have asked the racfadmin to authorize HC. Now, where was this action described? Believe me, I have

z/OS 1.12 data areas

2011-07-21 Thread Barbara Nitz
1.12 system pac doesn't have them as .boo's. It does have stuff like Office vision that we obviously need. Thanks and regards, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: z/OS 1.12 data areas

2011-07-21 Thread Barbara Nitz
That took ages to appear (like several hours). In the meantime I have found some old threads with links to something where I can download the .boo books that IBM refuses to put into the pubcenter. The pubcenter has all other recent (as in 1.13) docs. Go figure. Thanks, Barbara

Re: z/OS 1.12 data areas

2011-07-21 Thread Barbara Nitz
Barbara - You can download the .boo pubs (including the 1.12 data areas) from the IBM website http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ I believe that is where I eventually found them, thanks, Bob. (Due to an old post where you mentioned this.) What's wrong with listserv? It takes forever

Re: HSM MCDS DCOLLECT issue

2011-07-20 Thread Barbara Nitz
, some of them even show the space that used to be occuoied on DASD. (or was that in the output from dcollect backupdata?) Regards, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: ONTOP?

2011-07-20 Thread Barbara Nitz
Now we have no source, but we have a powerful support mechanism in place, and the situation has (at least somewhat) reversed. The skills now are in collecting appropriate doc, getting it to IBM quickly, and supplying other relevant information to Level 2 clearly and factually. Not just anyone can

ICHRSMFI - ancient usermod, is it needed?

2011-07-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
Currently I have the dubious honour of helping to install z/OS 1.12. We have reached the part where all of our usermods need to get customized. While doing that, I came across this modification to the RACF Report Writer: ++ZAP(ICHRSMFI) DISTLIB(AOSBN). NAME RACFRW ICHRSMFI

Re: ICHRSMFI - ancient usermod, is it needed?

2011-07-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
The zap changes the smf record type used by the (deprecated) RACF report writer. Some informations/reports are missing in reports generated by the RACF report writer if the usermod is not applied AND smf type20 is NOT collected (see SMFPRMxx TYPE/NOTYPE parameter) You mean this is another area

Re: Servicelink

2011-07-14 Thread Barbara Nitz
Just called the helpdesk and opened a problem. They assured me that servicelink wasn't terminated while I wasn't looking. Got a callback that IBM has storage problems in Boulder (as in DASD). So no SIS for us. Apparently they are working on it. Barbara

Servicelink

2011-07-13 Thread Barbara Nitz
cannot be called for at least an hour to ask what's wrong. Thanks, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: SR - was: Re: Don't like.

2011-07-12 Thread Barbara Nitz
What does SR stand for? 'service request'. It's the replacement tool for ETR IBM forces on us. Note that reporting a bug is now called a 'service request', as in, the customer begs IBM to do something we're entitled to get due to our contracts and the warranty that contract has. Cite? Or must

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-11 Thread Barbara Nitz
Well, as of today, Sizer is broken again. I get the MQ errors again. For the health checker structure (which previously gave me a cflevel13 answer) I now get the MQ error, too. A hitmiss tool. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN

SR - was: Re: Don't like.

2011-07-11 Thread Barbara Nitz
Maybe it's getting better. It now uses HTTP instead of insisting on HTTPS. Really? After authentification (which *I* would insist on being https) it stays https for me. Which makes a lot of sense, as we don't want our company's software problems to become common knowledge. o I had the site

Re: Don't like.

2011-07-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
The graphic things are a quotation mark, but it seems hard to figure that out initially. It was more intuitive than anything IBM throws at their customers (see SR) :-). I know you're not responsible for SR, Walt! Barbara --

Re: How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
the slower cp is the measure and not the faster cp. I would have said that the standard CP is the measure and not the specialty engine but of course in today's world the two statements end up the same since the standard CP is the slower one when there is a difference.. I know that I tend to

Re: How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
Having just written a lengthy update, the new web interface tells me that 'a server error occured' - all is gone. Next try. Your graphic based on the number of engines online is a pretty clever idea. But I was thinking that the number of online engines was just one way to implement CoD. Do I

Re: Don't like.

2011-07-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
Yes! Thanks, after I hovered my rat, oops mouse :-D, over that two green graphic things, I then saw the pop-up help text 'Quote Original Message' . Whew! :-D And here I thought I was the only one who didn't have a clue how to quote in the new version :-) Barbara

Re: How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
And the answer to that question will rely on whether you are running with full-speed processors and have zAAPs/zIIPs since, depending on the control block you are examining, time running on a zAAP/zIIP might be normalized to the speed of the standard CP (hence multiplied). ASCBEJST is one such

Re: How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-07 Thread Barbara Nitz
- Software MSUs are in really Marketing MSU's, in fact any other name than MSU would make the situation more clear. - Hardware MSUs are really hardware configuration denpendent, which means that any variation in hardware will change the SU conversion factor. Vary a CPU online and you have a

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-07 Thread Barbara Nitz
Well, I tried to take it offline but my email came back: I send Bill an email (from an ID that doesn't reject everyone) with what I used. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-07 Thread Barbara Nitz
As of this morning, Bill has managed to fix the sizer (or have it fixed). Using the url http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/, which immediately changes to the one I *had* been using (http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/), I now get results from the sizer, both for RRS and

Re: How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
Thanks for all the suggestions. I guess I didn't make myself clear enough when I asked the question. I am NOT looking to show anything normalized, quite the opposite. What I do want to show is absolute cpu seconds used, with a horizontal line (bar, minibar, Unselectable Storage Segment :-) )

Re: How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
In your note below you left out the number of engines as part of the equation for hardware MSU. Ah, the MSU is for one processor only, then! Only when I multiply the 74MSU by the 6 processors that we have I arrive at 444 (instead of the quoted 339)., i.e. almost 31% more 'hardware MSU' than

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
Bill, CFSizer requests are fielded by a CF at the IBM Poughkeepsie site. I suspect that you submitted your sizing requests during a period in which that CF and its containing sysplex were down for the July 4th holiday. The MQ messages simply mean that your sizing request didn't get

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
not to escape your question about CFSIZER, but if you are migrating from one CF to the other, meaning there will be a timeframe when both of them are online, then moving the structures through rebuild (or better REALLOCATE) will manage this for you. Irrelevant here. The migration will be a

How many CPU seconds can I consume per 10minutes?

2011-07-05 Thread Barbara Nitz
Background: Traditionally, we have been reporting cpu usage for our box normalized to 100% using the TYPE70PR SMF records. Unfortunately, when the model of the box changes via CoD (or whatever it is called), you cannot even *see* that the capacity has become bigger. Using the total cpu seconds

Re: PDSE cache

2011-07-04 Thread Barbara Nitz
With LLA and load modules it works fine, but I would need to cache other type PDSE members(AFP resources ). From the SMF 14 record cache section I see it was not from cache, but don't see the reason why and if I can change this . SMF Type 14 will NOT show you PDSE activity. PDSE have their own

Re: PDSE cache

2011-07-04 Thread Barbara Nitz
In my SMF 14 records there is the PDSE Statistic section, and I see the directory cache hits , but no data member hits. It is a AFP resource library (not SMS managed) , 600 members and all are relatively small (1 -4 K bytes), but a server application opens again and again. I hope to set the

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
SYSTEM scope, and may be this is to be attributed to CA-MIM being started later after IPL moment We are not using MIM, and ours are SYSTEMS scope (in a true sysplex), and SYSTEM scope in a monoplex with GRS=none. Regards, Barbara Nitz

Re: Logical to Physical CPU ratio (was Re: Running a SYSPLEX ...)

2011-05-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
finally go z196: They will be taking away another general CP, maybe two. My preaching to reduce lpars falls on deaf ears. That'll leave us with a maybe 5:1 or worse ratio. :-( Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: A Warning to Anyone Servicing z/OSMF

2011-05-22 Thread Barbara Nitz
A few months ago, we brought up z/OSMF under z/OS 1.12. Applying service this weekend made it totally unusable. It turns out our configuration files have been wiped out! ... I'm not sure if this is what I would necessarily call 'progress', but it's definitely a brave new world out there.

Re: Reading dumps with secondary address spaces

2011-05-17 Thread Barbara Nitz
, and that won't be dumped in udumps. I am not even sure that a sysmdump would help here.) Since I avoid sysudumps like the plague, all I could tell you is how to read an *sdump* where there are several address spaces dumped. Just use IPCS and specify the address space wanted as a parm. Regards, Barbara Nitz

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-03 Thread Barbara Nitz
get in CICS? Please show the output of a D IPLINFO command and verify that *that* ieasysxx member has the lpa=xx statement. Do you have any IEAFIXxx (FIX=xx) or IEALPAxx (MLPA=xx) statements in that ieasysxx member? Regards, Barbara Nitz

Re: CF Structure Sizing

2011-04-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
, so increase accordingly. This is a substantial increase in size. Did it work before? If so, what has changed? Regards, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

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