Kees, "About your answer above: why do you check a single PGDS utilization? I think it hardly hirts when one PGDS is over some limit if the total configuration is within limit? ... Besides that, the question is what we can do about it, as Barbara already mentioned."
thanks for basically asking the same questions I have asked in the ETR I had opened. I was given to understand (not as clearly, of course) that I have no idea what I am talking about. And why do I even question IBMs "best practises"? As this has happened for *every* HC ETR I have ever opened (and also for quite a few emails that I had exchanged in hopes of improving the product) I have resolved to not bother anymore. If I cannot make a check fit, I just delete it. We have a line in every checklist that says 'get HC to shut up'. And we installed the downloadable version before we migrated to 1.6, so we've been putting up with HC for a long time. The only reason we still start the STC is that *very few* checks actually do make sense, the RACF_sensitive_resources being among them. Another is the RSM MAXCADS check, as this is the only way to actually see how many CADS are in use short of taking a dump. (It may be that showmvs also reports on this.) To me it appears that IBM is promoting the health checker as a way to prevent customers from using the variety of options that z/OS supports (just to make life for the support groups easier). To that effect, every component gets beaten to write a 'health check'. Hence some duplicate checks, some extremely poor documentation, some checks that I consider plain stupid, and a lot that appear to be written hastily (we call that "unloved" in German-"lieblos") and not thought out. If you don't distort your installation to follow those so-called 'best practises', IBM will basically tell you that you're on your own, and if you don't do it, it's your own fault if you have problems. I still consider the *idea* of looking at best practises very valid and very good, but not how HC implements it, and not what I consider IBMs closedmindedness about the product and its checks. My 2 cents, and I'll stop now. Regards, Barbara -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
