Re: z/VM 5.4 RSU 1002

2010-09-29 Thread Kris Buelens
A 3 digit CMS service level existed before PUT and/or RSU tapes existed. With the arrival of PUT/RSU, and their 4 digit number, CP was enhanced with a Q CPLEVEL command, but CMS remained compatible with its past. 2010/9/29 Alan Ackerman alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com HELP says: Responses

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

2010-09-29 Thread Kris Buelens
In the Redbook I mentioned, I wrote a chapter to compare NetRexx with Rexx. And, as opposed to OO-Rexx, NetRexx is not upward compatible with REXX. I didn't visit NetRexx recently, but as NetRexx is in Java, NetRexx runs on all Java platforms (this too should appear in this redbook) 2010/9/29

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: And, if the 2'nd level system has enough free spool space, you could let this 2'nd level run without page packs: CP will page in the spool when paging is full (or not-existing).  **NOT** recommended for a production

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-29 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
As always, Alan, ty for the good advice. I have renamed with CPFMTXA the 2nd Level disks to 54O(Oh)RES, 54O(Oh)W01, adn 54O(Oh)W02 and will copy the 2 page and 2 spool disks just for simplicity, neatness counts. Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-29 Thread Kris Buelens
That's then to confuse everyone 0 and O, who can tell the difference unless having a very good font, and even then. If you change, change it better, not more work Why not 54TRES, 54TW01 etc 2010/9/29 George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com As always, Alan, ty for the good advice. I

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

2010-09-29 Thread David Boyes
But who is going to write it? It's not going to come from Sun/Oracle. Sun doesn't even provide one for the M acintosh -- Apple does. There are a heck of a lot more Macs than copies of CMS. If you want it enough to contribute to the development, let's talk offlist. We've done Java ports

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: That's then to confuse everyone 0 and O, who can tell the difference unless having a very good font, and even then. If you change, change it better, not more work Why not 54TRES, 54TW01 etc I guess my background of

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

2010-09-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:30 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS? But who is going to write it? It's

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-29 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
ty all, I will change the volser's to 54XRES, 54XW01, 54XW02. It is not as poetic but neither is a disaster. Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 09/29/2010 10:11 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Question about DFSMS/VM - RMS

2010-09-29 Thread Sergio Lima
Hello, Thanks very much from your help. I'm starting my work with this now, and of course, have some questions. How you can see, this list, is very useful, and also help a lot. Let me learn few more about this, and later let you know. Thanks again, and Best Regards, Sergio

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

2010-09-29 Thread David Boyes
Would this be true JAVA? I.e. from licensed source? Or a port of OpenJDK? Which I take it is somewhat different. Or am I, once again, out of my mind (please leave a voice message at the tone)? If you want the licensed source, then the price obviously goes up. The technical problem is pretty

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 09/29/2010 at 10:39 EDT, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Would this be true JAVA? I.e. from licensed source? Or a port of OpenJDK? Which I take it is somewhat different. Or am I, once again, out of my mind (please leave a voice message at the tone)? The

z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
This was stated on the z/VSE LISTSERV, can someone confirm (or deny) it? Here is a quick tip. When running under VM with multiple VSE's it is usually NOT a good idea to define multiple CPU's to VSE and expect turbo dispacher to handle them. Why? Because z/VM will not dispach a VSE unless it

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: This was stated on the z/VSE LISTSERV, can someone confirm (or deny) it? Here is a quick tip. When running under VM with multiple VSE's it is usually NOT a good idea to define multiple CPU's to VSE and expect

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Tom Huegel
I know you are a smart guy Rob, but I beg to differ with you on this point. At least where VSE is concerned. I have done this and can reproduce results at will (that is if I stilled worked there). Environment: 4 CPU z890. 8 gig real memory. z/VM 5.4 7 production VSE's VSE 2.7 z/VSE 3.1 With VSE's

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Kris Buelens
VSE's turbo dispatcher is known not to be the best in avoiding MP overhead, the VSE lab published tables with its MP overhead. So, never draw conclusions from VSE tests in MP situations to apply them to other environments. And, I don't see where your measurement would disagree with what Rob often

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com wrote: With VSE's using only 1 CPU (non-dedicated) I carfully selected a one hour job mix. Giving VSE's 4 CPU's (non-dedicated) the same job mix ran close to 1hr 20min... This is wall clock time, which in final analysis is the

Hillgang meeting - October 13

2010-09-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
The z/VM and Linux on z user group ³Hillgang² will meet on October 13 in Herndon Virginia at the CA offices. The agenda has been updated and may be found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf The PDF also contains logistical information regarding registering and directions. Neale Ferguson

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Michael Harding
Also... you haven't mentioned whether you adjusted the share value when you added virtual cpus to your VSE guest. Remember that each v-cpu will get only 1/n of the userid's share, which may place them at a disadvantage if competing with the virtual cpus of your other guests. So if I'm running

Mixed page volume sizes

2010-09-29 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
On of our z/VM 5.4.0 systems is about to grow to 140 GB of storage. Given our target overcommit ratio of 3:1, and IBM's advice to keep paging space no more than 50% full, this should just about fit onto 240 or 248 3390-3 sized volumes. My question is what will happen the next time we add

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Tony Thigpen
IBM has said many, many times to never, never use more than 3 CPU's with VSE, and even 3 is be bad with most work loads. This is due to the overhead of the Turbo-Dispatcher. With 4 you were spinning the dispatcher more than servicing the jobs. Try your job with just 2 CPUs. Tony Thigpen

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Tom Huegel
OK .. maybe Cathrine M. will chime in I can't remember everything we tried, but she takes notes. If I remember correctly nothing worked better than 1 CPU. I set share manually and let VMRMSVM do it dynamically. I think VMRMSVM did a better job overalll than I did manually. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread Tony Thigpen
With most workloads, IBM says to get the largest UNI you can. Remember, with z/VSE, only one CPU can be used by a single partition at a time. If you have a heavy CPU usage partition, like CICS, that uses up all the cycles it can, then adding another CPU just adds overhead. The only time I really

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread McBride, Catherine
I agree with IBM on this one. Long ago the powers-that-were brought in a 6-way with not-too-fast processors. This was when turbo dispatcher was first GA. The experiment was only marginally successful. Great perf on CMS, not so good on VSE - Original Message - From: The IBM z/VM

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

2010-09-29 Thread McBride, Catherine
One was best in our atypical environment with an atypical workload. We were an ADABAS shop and that skewers things a bit with all its SVC's. We did test with rel share set equally. No limitsoft or set absolutes. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Mixed page volume sizes

2010-09-29 Thread Kris Buelens
CP will page out to the disk with the best performance, so yes, the mdl3's may be filled too much when mixing sizes. 2010/9/30 O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.comdennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com On of our z/VM 5.4.0 systems is about to grow to 140 GB of storage. Given