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From: "Mark Pace" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Software delivery via internet or tape
The timeouts are the exact reason I swtiched to downloading to an NFS
server
and then doing RECEIVE FROM NTS. An FTP or Download-Director download is
much faster and reliable than RECEIVE ORDER. I had a couple of orders
that
had to be restarted after it had almost completed, wasting a vast amount
of
time.
The timeout issues occur because SMP/E spawns (forks?) a Unix process to
unspin the tarball. For humongous tarballs, you can get S522 waiting for
the process to get back to the SMP/E batch job. You can also run into
storage issues as well, as the old default of 64M just ain't enough anymore.
I submitted RCF's to have the SMP/E User's guide show TIME=1440 and
REGION=0M in the standard SMP/E JCL. The book's been updated, so you should
be running in TIME=1440 or TIME=NOLIMIT, and REGION=0M.
I was an early adopter of SUF, and glommed onto RECEIVE ORDER, FROMNETWORK,
and FROMNTS as soon as they were available. They were all light years ahead
of tape, SLDPAC, etc. Electronic delivery is definitely the way to go.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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