Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

-- snip -- :Ed Jaffe asks... : Out of curiosity, which software products allocate CSA in keys A- : F? :I know of one major vendor's storage management product that right up :until the last time I looked (more than a year ago) ran in key 10 :(X'A0') and used a bunch of CSA in key 10. The

Re: IBMLINK vs Resource Link

-- snip -- Out of curiosity: What is the difference between IBMLINK and Resource Link? Btw. - Our hardware guys use resource link https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/hom03010.nsf?OpenDatabase - For PMR's I use : Software Service Request

Re: HSM and offsite logging -- An HSM question

-- snip -- snip I was hoping there was an exit in HSM where one could code dataset patterns like IMSVS.SLDSS.*. Each time HSM goes looking for work in its input queue, the exit would be invoked to scan for a pattern match and select our IMSVS.SLDSS.* dataset activity for processing, in

Re: Why is HSA so ridiculous on a z9 at z/OS V1R8?

-- snip -- Maybe if IBM renamed it people would mind less. Perhaps CFFHASRADHCSA Customer Focused Functionality High Availability Super Reliability Allows Dynamic Hardware Changes Storage Area? -- snip -- If they hid it under the covers (internal, customer non-visible memory) we would all be

Re: z/OS 1.9 Announcement Letter ENUS 207-175

-- snip -- z/OS 1.9 manuals are online at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/ -- snip -- Also take a look at the new Hot Topics issue with Ms. zIIP and Mr. zAAP on the front cover. Lots of good information! -- John

Re: IPCS and disassembly/LIST addr INSTRUCTION

-- snip -- Seems like it got confused with an imbedded data area and started disassembling instructions at odd addresses. -- snip -- The plague of every disassembler. There are some disassemblers that allow you to specify which area is data (non-code), and specify base registers ... But, for

Re: IPCS and disassembly/LIST addr INSTRUCTION

-- snip -- :-- snip -- :Seems like it got confused with an imbedded data area and started :disassembling instructions at odd addresses. :-- snip -- :The plague of every disassembler. Not on the S360+ platform. Instructions CANNOT be at odd addresses. Sheesh. -- snip -- Sorry Binyamin, I

Re: JCL passing parms to ASM module?

-- snip -- The OPEN broke it! . . I don't believe I have any entry housekeeping that could break R1: BALR 3,0 USING *,3 OPEN (SYSPRINT,OUTPUT) L 2,0(1) *copy parm addr into R2 etc... -- snip -- Taking a look at the assembler output (using PRINT GEN),

Re: Protecting ISMF Functions

-- snip -- With this in mind, is there something else protecting us from someone bypassing RACF program control with an unprotected copy of ISPF? Do the STGADMIN.** profiles in the FACILITY class protect the underlying functions? If so, is the RACF program control suggestion offer only a

Re: IODF and logical paths limitation

-- snip -- Background: when you define i.e. DASD unit in HCD you can have multiple logical control units (CUADD) as well as many LPARs can use the chpids attached to the CU. However logical paths limit (# of logical paths = #CUADDs x #LPARs) vary depending on DASD model. For example HDS 7700E aka

Re: Vary devices online and offline

-- snip -- ROUTE *ALL,V ,ONLINE or OFFLINE Command processing got so backed up that automation failed to respond to some message traps for over an hour! The problem turned out to be 'aggregation', one system's attempt to gather responses from multiple systems and display them all at once. It

Re: Global mirror for z/OS

-- snip -- Having said that, I heartily endorse the technology. We started mirroring DASD in the late 90's when we still had to use conventional channel extenders. However you do it, nothing improves performance more than money does. ;-) -- snip -- I agree Skip. Knowing that one has a copy of

Re: Where to find CPU% Used by an Address Space

-- snip -- Can someone please point me to a way to find out what percentage of the machine an address space is using? It could be percentage of CPU also and then I can find number of CPU's and do the math, or total percentage depending on how the numbers are stored. I'm not sure how to do this.

Re: Where to find CPU% Used by an Address Space

-- snip -- Does anyone have any Rexx that calls ERBSMFI directly? -- snip -- For starters (DEVICE section - but basically the same for other sections) /* Use RMF and SMF79 record to get volume information ERBSMFI requires that RMF monitor I is up and running */ rmf_data : nop

Re: Slip Trap turning off GTF on different LPAR

I wrote: (somewhat facetiously) /RO the_system_you_wanted,the_command_you_wanted? And Ed said Are you suggesting enhancing SLIP to issue system commands? Not at all. I was responding (tongue in cheek) to Peter's comment that there was no system-provided means of driving SLIP on another

Re: CACHEFASTWRITE

-- snip -- can you pls tell me if IDCAMS/SETCACHE VOLUME(xx) CACHEFASTWRITE OFF works on a ssid basis or at storage cabinet basis meaning when I run CFW OFF for one volser I get all devices from the storage cabinet with CFW OFF. -- snip -- It gets set per volume. If you want all volumes to

Re: CACHEFASTWRITE

-- snip -- John has answered your question, but I would ask that you consult your storage vendor about the recommendations for this value. HDS for example generally recommend having CFW turned on as it can halve the amount of cache used for CFW writes that have not been destaged to disk. -- snip

Re: ASSIGNED TO ANOTHER SYSTEM (IEE791I)

-- snip -- If the unit is being used in a sysplex then the following command issued on one system should suffice : RO *ALL,D U,,,addr However, as Shane points out if the unit is online to a system outside the sysplex, then I cannot think of a better procedure than : (a) Gulp (b) Issue the D

Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

-- snip -- Just ran into that. Things that large should be on physical tape (if you have it). We ran a report of dsns with more than 20 volsers and are just about all of them were from DB2 and jobs created by the same DBA. Our default forces things to virtual and people do have to let us

Re: Channel Detected errors only 1 lpar, 1 job, 1 vsm

-- snip -- Alright this is a head scratcher at least for me... We have recently installed a VSM5 and also have some VSM4's in the mix. We have one job that runs that is continually getting channel detected errors every time it runs and the errors are only occurring on the VSM5. Below is a

Re: Channel Detected errors only 1 lpar, 1 job, 1 vsm

-- snip -- John, Go to the HMC and do problem analysis on the PCHID to see if you are getting sequence errors. Possibly a bad cable or connection. Doug - Original Message - IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON 1891,17,01,**02,PCHID=0231 IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON

Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

-- snip -- VSM (and VTS) offer simple, application independent duplication for disaster recovery purposes. When you change jobs from using virtual tapes to real tapes you have to look at how you're going to duplicate the tapes. It's one reason to try to keep all your tapes virtual. [...] It's

Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

-- snip -- BTW: Even without clustering it is not necessary to move MVCs, since you can write VTVs on two MVCs in two ACSes (in two locations). Correct. We are looking at doing one of the two methods hopefully by the end of this year. Unfortunately at the moment we still work with PTAM

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not

-- snip -- FSVO ALL. Because BINARY probably doesn't work, WTF? I have *NEVER* seen a failure in a binary FTP transfer, other than the usual timeouts and dropped connections.. -- Unless done correctly the FTP of some datasets, such as those with Variable or Undefined record formats, will

Re: CA-Allocate / SMS

-- snip -- With VAM (Since I AM a Silverback), you can use a DDNAME of VDSDIAGS to trace the allocation thru the selection routines. This helps to see why a dataset didn't go where (I thought) it should have. . . Does SMS have a similar DD? I've used the TEST facility in SMS, but find it

Re: CA-Allocate / SMS

-- snip -- As Sam has already pointed out, there is nothing available in native SMS other than the ACS test option. Oh ye of little faith! Since z/OS 1.7, there is a console command SETSMS VOLSELMSG which will provide summary or detailed info about the SMS allocation process. It can be

Re: FDRPAS Question

-- snip -- I have a four CPU complex with multiple LPARS on each CEC and DASD from three vendors attached to all CECs. Using FDRPAS to swap a volume that is only online to one volume, but getting fdrw68 message. Anyone else run into that situation? What did you do to get rid of the message? Any

Re: How to monitor CPU peaks from an exec?

-- snip -- I would like to get a fairly simple report in real time of an online server's CPU usage. I'm especially looking for transaction-like peaks/spikes of CPU time, percentage of CPU used on the machine, and how long these spikes last. (What RMF does basically.) Right now I have an exec to

Re: Migration from z/800-0B1 to z9BC-703

-- snip -- When we upgraded to the z9 from a z800, the biggest shock was HSA. 1.4 Gig for HSA and no warning it would be that bad ??? I read about its impact, but never imagined it would be so much. Wiped out a whole LPAR I had planned. I concentrated on reviewing a paper called Moving to fewer

Re: Software only VTS?

snip --- And let's not forget TMM that comes free with z/OS and your friendly neighbourhood Storage Administrator... Ron --- snip -- That's almost true Ron. Some product has to move the data to tape. You still have to pay for HSM. Other than that, I agree with you. John

Re: IOS163A

-- snip -- The HMC will probably also have a hardware message for these errors. The message will give you an indication of the Unit Address that issued the problem, but unfortunately the message will not indicate the LCU. Your IBM CE should beable to find out this information for the message which

Re: Dyn Alloc gives 2nd instance of same GDG name

-- snip -- I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running instance. I allocated one instance of a GDG and got the G0207V00 extension. 4 seconds later, I allocated another instance (different DDNAME) and got the very same G0207V00. It would appear that the first 207 instance was

Re: Trying to catch output from HSEND command

-- snip -- But i find that the OUTTPUT function is working only with PUTLINE macro no with TPUT macro witch is used by HSM for generate mess. Can somebody tell witch function to use for catch HSM messeges generate by TPUT macro? I'm not aware of any standard function you can use from a batch

Re: Trying to catch output from HSEND command

-- snip -- I raised a share request for a supported API into HSM information many years ago - but I believe this died a death due to lack of interest from anyone but me. -- snip -- Rob, and you'd problably get the same kind of API implementation that the System Data Mover (ANTRQST) got. Namely,

Re: RESERVE and ENQ (GRS question)

-- snip -- I believe ENQ is not needed, but I'm not sure. A reserve only happens if there is an ENQ. It's one bit in the control block. You cannot have a reserve by itself, I believe. -- snip -- I remember being surprised when I coded a RESERVE and nothing happened. Allocating and reading the

Re: RESERVE and ENQ (GRS question)

-- snip -- Correct, the RESERVE macro only sets a bit that the next CCW chain to the device should include the CCW to effectuate the Reserve. Doesn't it depend on SYCHNRES setting in GRS ? BTW: I think it is unrelated to my doubt. My questions is (I'll try to rephrase it) : Does RESERVE cause

Re: ISGAMF00 problem

-- snip -- I'm trying to trace some SCOPE=STEP ENQ's. I RTFMed. I started GRS Monitor (ISGRUNAU). I modified ISGAMF00 member by putting GFLG FILTER=N. Then assembled, linkedited, issued F LLA,REFRESH, then F GRSMON,I=02 (my sufix). However I can't see any ENQ with scope=STEP. I'm pretty sure

Re: ISGAMF00 problem

-- snip -- Although the documentation and parameters would seem to indicate otherwise, the GRS monitor is not capable of recording STEP ENQs. Scott, Thnk you for the explanation. Indeed - I'm not happy of such surprise. However I have on more question: Can I see scope=STEP enq's using D

Re: BLKSIZE=0

--- snip -- Bruce, This conflicts with BLKSIZE=0 being used for SDB. SDB does not work unless DSORG can be established. BLKSIZE=0 is a null - SDB requires DSORG and no BLKSIZE. Additional DCB depends on the DSORG. Most sites have a default DATACLAS that will allocate with DSORG=PS if nothing

Re: z/OS 1.7 SYNCHRES=YES z/OS 14 SYNCHRES=NO

-- snip -- I have checked the manuals and the archives on this and I am still unsure about mixing the yes and no values for SYNCHRES in a GRSPlex (Basic sysplex if that matters any). I need to bring my TEST LPAR into . . -- snip -- We migrated from z/OS R4 to z/OS R6 and allowed the default to be

Re: FICON CTC MIH

-- snip -- We haven't got anything specified in IECIOSxx but are having some difficulty getting VARY commands to them to complete. -- snip -- We make pretty extensive use of FICON CTCs, including 'channel extension' over DWDM. Our IECIOS00 has no entries at all for CTCs, so we're taking defaults.

Re: IBM to Acquire Softek

-- snip -- I like the way you think, but this one actually makes a lot of sense. I can see Global Services licking their chops at the prospect of doing storage vendor migrations, whether it is to or from IBM DASD. -- snip -- Here in Germany, FDRPAS is offered by IBM to aid in data migration when

Re: IBM to Acquire Softek

-- snip -- I am guessing that they would need a good $$$ reason to renew. That's the bad news. The good news here is that both products are excellent in this space. -- snip -- Definitely second that. John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Any DST Problems Yesterday?

Hey, he may be feeling grumpy due to that lost hour of sleep yesterday. I (like many other people on this planet) actually didn't change their clocks on the weekend. I don't think Shane did either. John (Did IBMLINK cope with the time change? G)

Re: IPCS Questions (two)

-- snip -- 2) The new OPCODE function is great, but I am really in need of a CLIST or REXX based disassembler that can be executed from within the IPCS environment. Has anyone seen anything like this? If you're running z//OS V1R8, IPCS has support for an INSTRUCTION data type that is

Re: Is anyone out there using HSM and the CDS are managed via RLS?

-- snip -- Our shop is Z/OS 1.8. We want to implement HSMplex(4 members).we will also implement DR in the future. We are not sure whethere we need RLS for accessing the control data sets. Could you tell us the advantage and disadvantage of RLS ? Is there any limition for the HSM CDS managed

Re: MOD54

-- snip -- Any one with 3390 mod54 . Any problems experiences good or bad -- snip -- No software or response time problems to date. Ensure that you check with your Software suppliers for support info. Dumping them takes a very long time. We're reviewing whether it is needed at all in our

Re: Restarting SMSVSAM address space

-- snip -- Hello, I am setting up environment for RLS. I started SMSVSAM (with V SMS,SMSVSAM,ACTIVE), but now I have to restart it (had some security problems), and I don't know how. I issued V SMS,SMSVSAM,ACTIVE again, since the explanation of the command states that 'it restarts SMSVSAM address

Re: Applicable component levels

-- snip -- I've just read an APAR OA11094 description. At the end there's a list of PTFs for various levels of RMM. R1GB PSY UA19542 UP05/08/02 P F508 R1GC PSY UA19543 UP05/08/02 P F508 R1G0 PSY UA19532 UP05/08/02 P F508 R1HB PSY UA19557 UP05/08/02 P F508 R1HC PSY UA19558

Re: JES2 proclibs allocated???

-- snip -- 1) TDMF process have moved lib03 to another DASD. 2) This lib03 has been deleted (manually). 3) This lib03 has been allocated (through 3.2 option) from system x Then, some messages are showed: IEC143I 213-04,,JES2,JES2,PROC00-0003,,volser How could fix it? AFAIK,

Re: manipulating catalogs

The Managing Catalogs manual describes this sequence with a DELETE and a DEFINE between the export and import, so the import is into an empty catalog. In this case, jobs referencing the catalog would probably get upset. Why do you wnat to do this if you are not going to empty the catalog

Re: REPONSE TIME QUESTION IN RMF WLM REPORT

-- snip -- Hi all, I have a question about RMF report.In workload activity we can find response for certain service class.But SYSSTC always contain a SYSTEM in response time colume in the report.What is the SYSTEM meaning.Can any one help me?Thanks a lot. best regards YY -- snip -- SYSTC

LPAR utilization more important than MVS utilization?

. SYSINFO shows me the MVS%. CPC capacity only shows LPAR% and physical%. What do you people think? I am being too picky? I expected PLOTS(CPU) to be MVS% but was suprised to find it was LPAR%. Thanks John ___ John Ticic

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

-- snip -- Is there any IBM public list about what DASD vendors suppport GDPS?. If so, could you please provide me with the URL? I dont'know why my post did not get through , i'll re-ask . My question : If you talk about DASD support for GDPS , i suppose you mean the ability to do Hiperswap ..

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

-- snip -- I would not say that Hyperswap (GDPS) only swaps UCB's. It must communicate the hardware to change the mirroring direction at the same time. I remember we had to wait for new microcode levels to use Hyperswap or at least some of its new features. E.g. one of the features is (was)

Re: HDS backup process

-- snip -- I was told that in order to do this the secondary volume labels' must be clipped before I can bring them online but by clipping them I also loose the primary-secondary volume relationships. Besides using another lpar or other 3rd party utilities to run the backups, how does one

Re: Unusual FTP request.

-- snip -- Maybe not your department, but don't any of the z/OS systems you work on have maintenance jobs that are regularly scheduled? Is it all started with JES2 automatic commands? Or does an operator submit them and cross the jobs off a flowchart? Not far fetched Damn! It's gotta be

Re: CF usage at DR location

--- snip --- - snip - these datasets will be PPRC mirrored One of the two sets of datasets IBM recommends to not mirror is the CDS set. The other is PAGE. I have another set that I never mirror'd: SCRATCH. The overhead of synchronous mirroring kills the first two, for sure. - snip

Re: HDS backup process

-- snip -- Ron, Are you using the BCM (Business Continuity Manager) Host software, or the archaic PPRC commands? As a GDPS PPRC site I believe we are stuck to PPRC commands. -- snip - By default yes. You can write your own scripts, and could possibly intergrate the BCM commands into GDPS. I

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

--- snip --- In my case ,I run a // sysplex on 2 distant sites I have protected my environment against hardware failure by PPRCing (synchronous) the entire siteA DASD bay on siteB bay . If a plane strikes ( forget the laser beam :-) ) one of my bay,i am OK,i still have my site B with proper data

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion

SNIP I disliked contractors for lots of reasons. The one that really gets my goat is INSTANT copy. Ed SNIP Huh??? -- snip -- Leave it alone Steve. Otherwise we'll just stir up the whole instant copy/flashcopy/remote copy thread again. John

GRS concurrent enqueue limit

Hello List, I just stumbled across this statement concerning z/OS 1.8 and GRS. A new programming interface for GRS that is designed to allow authorized programs to set their own concurrent enqueue (ENQ) limits within their address spaces. Can anyone shed some light as to why you would need

Re: GRS concurrent enqueue limit

-- snip -- From Item RTA60115 GRS maintains, in the GRS vector table (GVT), a threshold value for unauthorized callers in GVTCREQ (the default is 4096) and a threshold value for authorized callers in GVTCREQA (the default is 30,000). These thresholds are in the nucleus. . . The current

Re: Quick SMS Question.

-- snip -- If the volume was _already_ defined in the storage group, then you did the init, you should just be able to vary it online. You need to do -- snip -- The SMS volume status should also be set to ENABLE. This many not be the case depending on how the volume(s) were initially added to the

Re: Shark - 2105 Question

-- snip -- Is there any way that I can identify if any volumes in the 2105 were created as 3390-9's. Such as MVS console commands , HCD lookup or actually getting into the 2105? -- snip -- As you've already seen in the other responses, emulated 3390-9 devices are just 3390-3 with a certain

Re: Multiple HSM's on one LPAR. (Prod + test/dev)

-- snip -- My question is: How do I setup my second HSM, in the same LPAR as production?. Is there a way to distinguish the invocation of a specific HSM, based on the HLQ of the datasets it is suppose to manage (test development) ? -- snip -- You're out of luck. I can think of numerous reasons

Re: Disk I/O tuning still possible?

-- snip -- Then along came RAID arrays. . . . So, I ask, is I/O tuning still possible, or even necessary? -- snip -- Yes, even though most people don't bother. When your I/O response time and throughput are satisfactory, one tends to just leave it as it is. You can pull RMF reports and look at

Re: Geography Dispersed Parallel Sysplex Question

--- snip --- GDPS/PPRC is not supported at that distance. Do you mean GDPS/XRC? We are the latter at a distance of 500 miles. I posted more information about this a few weeks ago when I recommended staying with one vendor for both sides of the COMM pipe. The growth in storage is an issue. If I buy

Re: GDPS Redbook

-- snip -- Personally I don't always have time to keep up with what's new in the Redbook series. To that end I have found some of Ed's recent postings / links to be extremely helpful - thanks. -- snip -- James, you don't have to wait until Ed posts to the list (thanks anyway Ed). You can

Re: TLAs - was summit else entirely ...

-- snip -- What is the world coming to ... *this* group, in *this* industry arguing about one of *THE* most basic of TLAs dear, oh dear ... Shane ... - Message - All right... I'll say it... just because no-one else has... I always understood it was Man Versus System -

Re: GDPS CF duplexing

-- snip -- But I was under the impression a multi-site GDPS/PPRC environment is suppose to offer continous availability, how does it do it if both CF are at one site and the site destroyed. If you're using dedicated standalone CF (not ICF), why whould it matter if the CF were local or physically

Re: GDPS CF duplexing

-- snip -- GDPS is evolving. It hasn't reached that ideal state you are looking for. So far, if I recall correctly, only the SYSPLEX timers and the DASD are truly in synch. And, DASD is not bi-directional (yet) for the same volume. -- snip -- Ted, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by not

zSeries Red alerts

I received a zSeries Red alert today but have not been able to locate the alert document at https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/redAlerts The alert is for HFS Red Alerts (2005.07.26)

Re: GDPS CF duplexing

-- snip -- After the short discussion which followed with regards to mirroring I now have a new question Asynchronous Cascading PPRC ------ --- --- | PPRC pri| PPRC SYNC | PPRC sec| PPRC-XD | XD sec | |FlashCopy| |

Re: NVSAM catalog entry deleted

-- snip -- is there an SMF record which identify a non-VSAM catalog entry being deleted ? -- snip - z/OS MVS System Management Facilities (SMF) Document Number SA22-7630-10 Program Number 5694-A01, 5655-G52 Record type 65 is written during any processing that results in a DELETE request to

Re: What part of z/OS is the OS?

-- snip -- So which part of Windows is the OS? File handling I/O GUI -- snip -- The mOuSe. :- John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Correlating CHPID utilization with DASD device activity

-- snip -- For one site, the RMF Channel Path Activity report is showing substantially higher channel activity than for the other site. The times of the high channel activity are well aligned with a testing schedule, but I would like to further narrow down what is causing the extra activity. . .

Re: Correlating CHPID utilization with DASD device activity

-- snip -- To drill down to the Data Set level you'll either need to startup GTF and do an I/O trace, or use one of the various Monitors (TMON, BMC, ...) Assuming one does a GTF I/O trace, what does one then do with the trace? Are there tools available to drill down to the Data Set level given

Wealth of Information

There is a wealth of Information available on the Internet, but sometimes it's well hidden. Here is a collection that is very interesting reading for any DFP bigots. DFSMS Support Flashes and Technical notes. http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/dfsms/ For example. Take a look at

Re: Correlating CHPID utilization with DASD device activity

-- snip -- Assuming one does a GTF I/O trace, what does one then do with the trace? Are there tools available to drill down to the Data Set level given only a GTF trace? In the bad old days, GPAR was available. I don't know of any other tools. I use IPCS. would, etc. I would never dream of

Re: DASD Performance

-- snip -- If you wanted to setup (from scratch) a DASD performance monitor (for RAID) and you weren't allowed anything but RMF and MXGSAS, what SMF records would you keep and why? -- snip -- MVS System Management Facilities (SA22-7630) is a good place to start. I would choose not only the RAID

Re: RULE OF THUMB ?

-- snip -- If I define the vtoc (below) as VTOC(0,1,29) - INDEX(2,0,45) The VTOC starts at cylinder 0 for 29 tracks The INDEX starts at cylinder 2 for 45 tracks. If for some reason the INDEX was set to 5,0,45. Would we have a problem with response time? Is there a set rule

Re: ICKDSF INSTALL -- What's the point?

-- snip -- My question is, So INSTALL writes the home address and record 0. So what? What is the benefit of doing INSTALL and INIT vs just the INIT? (All of our DASD is on virtual arrays, in case that makes a difference.) I have never bothered with the INSTALL before; is there a reason I

Re: How many?????? - 33 PAVS to one device

-- snip -- Only 1 other device showed delays approaching this and it's on a different ssid. No enq's, no contention, no IOSQ, no high activity rates (see 1st post), no nothing. Muy Abnormal? . . That's what I was wondering too. If XRC was the real problem, adding PAV's would not help at all, but

Re: XRC Primary Volume SWAP w/TDMF or FDRPAS

-- snip -- For Example; if a SWAP Source volume is also an XRC Primary volume, will TDMF/FDRPAS copy/move the volume? Or; if a SWAP Target volume is also an XRC Primary volume, will TDMF/FDRPAS copy/move the Source volume? . . Has anyone else addressed this issue? Anyone using FDRPAS/TDMF to move

Antwort: Re: XRC Primary Volume SWAP w/TDMF or FDRPAS

-- snip -- As I said, we modify the label on the source volume so that it can't be brought online, so IPL will ignore it and only see the volume on the target disk. And I wonder what XRC sees during the SWAP with the Target offline, but since XRC is controller based it should see all of the I/O

Re: PPRC status display reporting

-- snip -- I would like to get documentation about the info returned by the ANTRQST macro. I am using the ANTRQST ILK=PPRC,REQUEST=PQUERY,... macro instruction, and have tried both the FORMAT=LONG and the FORMAT=PQMAP parameter. In both cases I have had to guess the layout and/or the meaning of

Re: FICON Saturation?

-- snip -- I'm seeing a DFSORT that normally runs in 6 minutes take 33 minutes with the same record counts. It's accessing 1 disk that has an extremely low activity rate, response times not that high, IOSQ time appears to be 95% of resp time and device delays of 99 - 100%. One VSAM cluster is

Re: Help w/HSM Autobackup and Concurrent Copy

-- snip -- I currently have concurrent copy preferred in all of my management classes. I noticed during autobackups that datasets in use receive a RC of 8 from concurrent copy due to, I'm assuming, the TOL(ENQF) parameter not being included in the defaults for the dump command. HSM then issues an

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

-- snip -- Since most folks don't get a chance to explore the new features, thought I'd list the features introduced over the last couple of z/OS releases that I think will be of interest to applications programmers. -- much good stuff snipped -- Very well done Steve and much appreciated

Re: Future ISPF directions

-- snip -- }They won't be satisfied if/when the library gets corrupted due to lack of serialization. It might be best to use PDSE with PDSESHARING(EXTENDED) in effect. ... I tried using a PDSE as my ISPPROF, just last week. ISPF refused to initiate -- my PROFILE was 'improperly formated'. z/OS

Re: z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

-- snip -- With the recent z/OS 1.6 upgrades for SYSPLEX support, PPRC, GDPS and VTS (Virtual Tape Support), has anyone been able to use this technology infrastructure to remove and replace their existing copies of the software known as CA-MIM (Multi-Image-Manager)? If so, how did you justify this

Re: PPRC Implementation for z/OS and resources.

-- snip -- We are preparing to implement an asynchronous PPRC hardware solution between our production site and our disaster recovery site using the IBM ESS800 series subsystems for a tier 4 DR solution. I have found plenty of resources regarding the configuration of the hardware and

Re: ESS pprc question

-- snip -- We have two ESS800 in two locations with PPRC v2. We plan to power-off ESS_A (primary) for realocation (1-2 hours). For this period of time system and application will be stopped. During this time we don’t plan to start system in secondary location, so there will be no update on

Re: ACS Filtlist overhead

-- snip -- Even with a large FILTLIST, I don't think that the overhead needs to be worried about. The ACS routines are driven mainly during dataset allocation, so unless your site allocates an extraordinary number of datasets per day, the overhead is probably not noticable. Compared to the rest

Re: Allocated volumes after the power loss in the storage subsyst em

-- snip -- There was a UPS problem, it registered(?) anomaly in the electricity and itself and cut the electricity on the site (that was my understanding). I came later in and had to do only with the problems on the mainframe side. The simplex devices (that is, not mirrored) were not critical for

3390-81

Hello List, I've come across a couple of references to a 3390-81. Now, we have -27 and -54 devices. Have I missed some announcement? John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Replacement for 3179 terminals locally attached to a 3174 controller

-- snip -- Don't define NIP consoles. Let it fall through to the HMC. Works really well and you always know where the NIP console is going to be. What if the HMC fails? -- snip -- You always have a service element that can accept NIP messages. Depending on how you set up a GDPS environment,

Re: 2105-F20 Config sanity check

I came up with 17 x 3390-27's (30051 Cyl). The ESS will let you know exactly how many when you start to define them. 32 alias addresses for 17 -27 base addresses is too small for me. If you don't have an addressing problem, you should define some more. Can you define a new LCU for these -27

Re: DB2 MSTR address space memory usage

-- snip -- If you need a snapshot of memory usage, you could use a monitor if you got any or SDSF/DA Real field or TASID utility (even if it looks TASID doesn't care about DataSpace data). If you need a long term trend data, you should use SMF records post-processing. Hope it's useful. It is

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