Hi Gil, I would suggest you install and run the IBM Health Checker. Don't wait for the new and improved Health Checker go install and run the existing one now.
I would encourage anyone who has not already to download it and run it. This takes less than 30 minutes and one good finding justifies the time. http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/downloads/ I now use Health Checker after every IPL and configuration change. We recently migrated from ESCON to FICON CTC's for XCF. I ran health checker after each stage and at one point it caught a procedure error which had caused us to not have the communication we expected defined within the Sysplex. I use it to verify the changes or lack of to the virtual storage map after every IPL. Best of all (you can forgive a lot for this) it is FREE! Mark Brooks is one of the principal developers for XCF at the IBM Poughkeepsie lab and has presented on XCF performance several times at SHARE. You can find his foils which are very detailed in the SHARE proceedings. Here is the abstract and a link. You may need a userid and password for the SHARE web site if you don't have them they can be had for free by contacting SHARE HQ using the web form. 2843 - Planning, Tuning, and Managing XCF Signalling Resources - Part 1 of 2 Poorly configured signalling resources can cause severe problems in the Sysplex! In this session, the speaker will describe XCF's underlying management of the signalling resources. Building on that foundation, he will then discuss the potential consequences of poor configurations. He will describe how to use RMF reports and XCF display output to make inferences about signal traffic in the Sysplex. He will also explore XCF messages IXC431I and IXC467I, that are issued when signal delivery appears to be stalled. This is the first of two parts, and is concluded in session 2844. http://ew.share.org/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_New_York/S2843mb .pdf One of the things Mark explained during his talk was that he took everything he normally reviews during a health checkup or performance review for a customer and got them to put it in Health Checker. So running the free health checker is getting the best practices review from the guy who owns the code. I hope that helps. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management (office) 301.986.3574 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Peleg Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Finding XCF transport class users Hi all, In our COUPLExx member we have 3 CLASSDEF definitions for 3 different classes with 3 different CLASSLENs for GROUP(UNDESIG). In RMF XCF Activity report I see that one of the transport classes has a high value for %BIG (43) with 100%OVR. This transport class is not the DEFAULT, and we do not have any explicit groups/signalling paths defined to it. How can I find out who is trying to use this transport class? Thanks a lot, Gil. <> ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
