Re: Hipersockets Performance Metrics

2008-06-12 Thread Brad Carson
Sam, On the z/OS side of things, you can always look at the channel stats for the IQD CHIPID. If you are having any performance issues it will show up there. On the IP side you will want to make sure the MTU size on the link matches the HCD defined size. Brad S. Carson Manager z/Series

Re: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-03 Thread Brad Carson
Ken, We use FDR from Innovation to do full volume dumps of offline volumes. We are using it along with EMC/Timefinder for our offsite DR backups. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth R Barkhau Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFDSS and

A Question on ViewDirect EXIT04

2007-11-20 Thread Brad Carson
Hello IBM-MAINers, We are trying to tackle an issue with ViewDirect (now ASG formally Mobius) and control which users can logon to a region via the RACF APPL class. We know that exit 4 would be a good place to check this since that is where the RACF userid/password is validated. So my questions

Re: z9BC HMC - Remote access?

2007-04-04 Thread Brad Carson
Tim, We are using the same Firewall/VPN solution here as well. Brad S. Carson Manager z/Series Technical Support Enterprise Systems Laboratory Corporation of America (336) 436-8294 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/4/2007 9:55 AM in our case it's inside the firewall, so access is via vpn software that

Re: Opinions wanted: z9BC HMC vs z890 HMC

2007-04-03 Thread Brad Carson
John, We have been using the Linux based HMC's here since last year. We have two z9 boxes (and EC and BC). We have found the LINUX HMC's to be easier to use (especially via the web interface), than the old OS/2 ones were. One of the biggest differences is in the local user interface, it

VSAM Transparency, Transactional VSAM Services, or IAM

2007-02-26 Thread Brad Carson
Everyone, Management here has decided that we need to review different products that would allow us the bring our CICS regions up while nightly processing is still running. As a member of a management assigned SWAT team to investigate products, our team has decided to focus on the following

Re: JES confusion on a specific job

2007-02-15 Thread Brad Carson
Rex, What Control-M is doing here is altering the sysout class for the joblog, jcl image, and allocation messages to a held class that can be picked up by the control-m monitor. That is how the monitor is checking for JCL errors, space errors, and other issues. In your schedule definitions you

Job Posting for DB2 Sysprog (with Darren's Approval)

2007-02-05 Thread Brad Carson
Everyone, I am posting this announcement for an available DB2 Senior Systems Programmer position on IBM-MAIN with Darren's approval. I will also be making the same posting on DB2-L. LabCorp has an immediate opening for a Senior level DB2 Systems Programmer. If you are still interested (or know